Word: woolsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rockefeller (always referred to since as "The Founder") gave $600,000. Marshall Field gave the site, worth $125,000 on the Midway where the World's Fair of 1893 was to be held. The character of the institution was contributed by William Rainey Harper, the 35-year-old Woolsey Professor of Biblical Literature at Yale whom the 'founders asked to be their first president. Youngman Harper said: "I am not interested in starting a college. But I am interested in starting a great university...
Such and many other quotations have filled the columns of the Metropolitan newspapers in the recent outbreak over the speech of President Angell before some 2500 students in Woolsey Hall, Thursday night. Perhaps more than any other one thing, it is an example of super-sensitive journalism with its ready eye for the unique detail or in this case the possible accusation...
...Harvard contingent for the joint concert with Yale in Woolsey Hall tomorrow evening, will consist of 60 musicians according to an announcement made last evening...
...concert will be given at 8.16 o'clock in Woolsey Hall, and will finish in time to allow the audience to attend the various dances which are being held in New Haven that evening...
...enthusiastic rally was held in Woolsey Hall this evening, many undergraduates marching to it, behind the band from the Berkley oval. The speakers included Coach Stevens, T. A. D. Jones, last year's coach, R. D. Root, and C. S. Osbourn. There was also cheering, singing, and picture slides...