Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...striking instances of the generosity of the university appears this morning in the large list of fellowships and graduate scholarships. When a university is able to offer as an aid to high students over eighteen thousand dollars it may well be proud of its position. The graduate scholarships play an important part in the education of the country. Unless a man is fairly well off it is very hard for him to afford to give up beginning to earn his living as soon as he leaves college, and instead to devote a few more years to his education. Were...
...Forty thousand dollars has been subscribed for the erection of a law school building at Yale...
...museum of the Leland Stanford University is just completed, and is the first college structure ever made entirely of concrete. It covers 20,000 square feet of ground. Fifteen thousand articles, collected by Mrs. Stanford, are ready to be shipped...
...graduates and friends of the University, who are asked to furnish the means necessary to carry out the plans, and they, as well as the Committee on the Regulation of Athletics, will gladly receive any suggestions for changes in them. The committee hopes to obtain at least fifty thousand dollars. Subscriptions may be sent to William Hooper, treasurer of the committee, 87 Milk Street, Boston...
Twenty-five thousand dollars have been collected toward building the "Harvard House" in New York City. "Harvard House" will be a general club for Harvard men; and the entire expenditure on ground and building will be over...