Word: york
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...suffered by the fire, and for the purchase of a "water-engine" for the College. Subscriptions to a much greater amount soon poured in. The Corporation and the Overseers, the clergy and the magistrates, towns, societies, and benefactors, both in America and Great Britain, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Trustees of the British Museum, the king's printer at Edinburgh, united in their contributions of money, books, apparatus, and furniture; one Englishman sending "two curious Egyptian mummies for the Museum...
...with pleasure that we hear of the flourishing condition of the New York Harvard Club. That association now numbers over two hundred members; and every Harvard graduate residing in New York is earnestly requested to join. The Club invites all Harvard undergraduates to their annual dinner, which takes place at New York on Friday, February 18. At the last annual meeting held at New York on the 11th inst., the election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows...
...panorama of Palestine, so has the Faculty of Yale directed the Senior Class to attend a matinee at Booth's Theatre. The Courant rightly thinks that this is very appropriate; and it is indeed provoking to have their motives misconstrued, as has been done by the New York World, which wickedly insinuates that it was done as an advertisement, to attract to Yale those youths who are inclined to fun. We sympathize with the Courant, and if short of invective after its consignments to the Advocate and World, we will take ours gladly in five-months' bills...
...universally known and was universally liked. The death of any one at twenty-one years of age is always an unusually sad event, but the death of one so bright, so generous, so uniformly good-natured as Allen Post is particularly distressing. His funeral took place in New York on Thursday, 30th December, and was attended by a large number of relatives, friends, and classmates...
...hereditary in this country, as in all others. Another table shows that the constituency of the College has increased within the last ten years; the proportionate representation from New England having decreased and that from the Middle and Western States having increased, chiefly owing to the increase from New York, which now supplies one eighth of the whole number of students. Almost two thousand dollars a year have been added to the funds for the support of meritorious poor students...