Word: august
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology has begun work on a new five story, fire-proof building which it is hoped will be finished by the first of August. The building is to be 58 ft. by 161 ft. and will be situated on Trinity place, opposite the east end of the Art Museum. The departments of Architecture, Biology, Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering are to have new rooms in the building, so that the additional 48,000 square feet of room will indirectly help the other departments which are now overcrowded...
Harry Stout Roberts, son of William Lippincott Roberts and Mary Van Dyke Stout, was born at Camden, New Jersey, on August 10th, 1874. He prepared for college at the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia. After receiving at Harvard the degree of A. B., he entered the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania. Being unable to continue his studies there on account of ill health, he went South to Bermuda. But his health failed to improve, and his death-caused immediately by some pulmonary trouble-occurred on January 27th...
...annual report of Provost C. C. Harrison to the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania for the year ending August 31, 1897, which has just been published, shows a year of advancement, extension, and general improvement in nearly every department. The provost, commenting on the fact that the university gave aid to the amount of over $50,000 to 331 students, says that the question of free tuition is a very serious one, and that scholarships should be applied for by the student only as the last resort...
...August last died suddenly, in the full vigor of his maturity, Frederic De Forest Allen, for for seventeen years Professor of Classical Philology in this University...
...class meeting last evening the old officers were unanimously reelected. It was voted that the president be empowered to appoint a committee to take action on the death of A. T. Pilling, who died late in August. It was further voted that a committee of five be appointed to make necessary preparations for the meeting to elect Class Day officers...