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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...some time past we have been hearing the usual complaints of the poor financial support which the freshmen are giving their crew; and now a direct appeal from the management comes to us. He needs one thousand dollars more in subscriptions, and the class doesn't seem disposed to give it. The question appears to be a very simple one: Is the crew to go to New London or not? Unless the money is raised by a certain time, the athletic committee has said that the crew shall not go to New London. That decision seems to be clear enough...
Johns Hopkins University has received a valuable gift in the shape of a collection of a thousand volumes and pamphlets on slavery from Gen. William Birney, of Washington, son of J. G. Birney, the great abolitionist...
...Peabody Museum has passed through the period of isolation which it has had to undergo as a product of private endowment through the beneficence of Mrs. Thaw. The Semitic Museum contains an interesting nucleus for a valuable collection. Five thousand dollars have been spent on books, manuscripts, inscriptions, photographs, casts, coins, electrotypes, impressions of seals and tablets...
...English department at Johns Hopkins, under Dr. Bright, has taken a decided philological turn, and in order to increase the facilities for the study of English as a literature, a sum of one hundred thousand dollars has been given to endow a new professorship...
Arequipa, the site of the observations, is situated on the Mollendo railway, at an elevation of about eight thousand feet, and is the second largest city in Peru. It is here that all their principal instruments are located. A railroad leads from this city up into the Andes, six thousand feet higher, so that when special observations are essential, recourse is had to the latter place and hither most of the instruments may be conveyed, although the larger telescope is never moved from Arequipa. Investigations made here are, conducted with regard-first to the meteorology of the globe, with particular...