Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Should National Banks be allowed to establish branches...
...Bury had been accused by his contemporaries of snobbery. They said that he tried to make himself better than other men by accumulating his library. De Bury answered these charges by saying that his reason for collecting books was that he might leave them at his death to establish a library for the use of poor students at Oxford. He says that he wrote the "Philobiblon" to justify his great love of books...
...debate between the representatives of Yale and Princeton will be held Alexandria Hall, Princeton, tonight. The question will be, "Resolved, That it would be wise to establish in respect of all state legislation of a general character, a system of referendum similar to that of Switzerland." Yale has the negative of the question and Princeton has the affirmative. The Princeton men will speak in the following order in first speeches: R. B. Perry '96, R. O. Kirkwood '97, and E. W. Hamilton '96. For second speeches, Kirkwood and Perry. The order of the Yale men will be: For first speeches...
Owing to the recent troubles in the A. A. U. a movement has been started to establish an independent league of the best New England athletic clubs. The clubs which will probably make up the league are B. A. A., Newton A. A., Providence A. A. and Portland A. A. The plan is to have teams from these four clubs compete in track and field sports, tennis, cricket, football, water polo, baseball and other branches of sport...
Yale should never cease to be thankful for its well constructed and equipped infirmary, whose practicability is being demonstrated with every patient who enters it. The University has tried to establish funds for erecting a pavilion or ward for contagious diseases, in connection with it, but adjacent residents are opposing the plan, and the city has stopped further preparation for the present, asserting that such diseases should be cared for in the special wards of the public hospital. It is hoped, however, that this opposition will soon be passed over, if it can be shown that the proposed pavilion would...