Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Chas L. Colby the founder of Colby University, Waterville, Me., has given $1,000,000 to establish a new university in Wisconsin...
...education, as also does Dr. Howard Crosby. The majority, however, are non-committal, including President Robinson of Brown, Porter of Yale and White of Cornell. President White, however, as our correspondent from Cornell recently stated, is to be counted for co-education. President Bascom of the University of Wisconsin expresses himself strongly in favor of co-education, and altogether presents the best arguments for the scheme. "It is uneconomical in theory," he says, "and impossible in practice, to provide a second series of colleges equal in extension and education force to those already in existence. Seclusion in the education...
...severe wind and rain storm prevailed throughout the Northwest on Saturday, doing a vast amount of damage. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri were visited and a large number of buildings were demolished...
...unexpected ending to a college prank was the arrest, on charge of theft, of five sophomores in Wisconsin University, who had run away with a supper prepared for some of the freshmen...
...Astronomical Observatory here," writes a Yale man to the Badger (Wisconsin University), "as is also the Harvard Observatory, which I visited during the holidays, is inferior to the Washburn Observatory...