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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Y. Post says, in regard to the Agassiz Museum : "By the purchase of the large Schary collection of Bohemian Silurian fossils, and by its own rich amassing in the West and Southwest during the year, the museum now contains one of the finest collections of palaeozoic fossil invertebrates in existence...
...rolling, knitting and pilot mills in Cohoes, N. Y., were destroyed by fire yesterday morning, the property loss aggregating...
...Commercial Advertiser building and the Masonic Temple at Buffalo, N. Y., were destroyed by fire late yesterday afternoon, the property loss aggregating $300,000. A fireman was fatally injured by falling walls...
...third annual dinner of the New England Society of Brooklyn, N. Y., was held in that city yesterday. Addresses were made by the Hon. Benjamin D. Silliman, the Hon. W. T. Davis, the Hon. Stewart L. Woodford, the Hon. Wm. M. Evarts and others...
...also add to this testimony that of the Yale correspondent of the N. Y. Post, who has been investigating the subject and who reports that he "has consulted with some of the leading professors as to the effect of athletics on men's mental training, and invariably he has been told that it is highly beneficial. With the exception of a few days before the one or two great contests, they say that during the whole period of training the athletic men display wonderful quickness in apprehension, and work harder than the majority of their fellows who have nothing...