Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Second half-year in the Medical School begins...
When it was announced last year that Mr. Clark intended to establish and endow a university in Worcester, Mass., a great deal of anxiety amongst the officers of the leading New England colleges was the result. Newspapers also took up the matter, and the current opinion was that Mr. Clark could have made a better disposition of his wealth by giving it to some college or university already well-established, than by founding a new university. Again some leading educators said that it was not fair to Amberst, nor to Brown, nor in fact to Harvard, to establish...
During the remainder of the year there will be bargains in books. Some book or set of books will be offered at an unusually low price for one day only...
Four men from the Albany (N. Y.) Academy will enter Harvard next year...
During the past year Cornell University has increased wonderfully, both in point of numbers, there being 1114 students in attendance this year against 1010 last, and also in point of faculties for instruction. The corps of instructors has been strengthened by the appointment of professors of political economy, horticulture, electrical engineering, and an assistant professor of Greek. Two large buildings which are in process of erection will soon be ready for occupation, one the Christian Association Hall, presented by the late A. S. Barnes, and the other a building for the department of civil engineering and architecture. The foundations have...