Word: hoffman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Alumni Association of the Phillips Exeter Academy held their sixth annual dinner at the Hoffman House, Wednesday evening. Not only was the banquet productive of important results socially, but various measures for furthering the interests of the academy were discussed at length. Steps were taken toward the building of a chemical laboratory, and resolutions were made informally to increase the number of scholarships and to improve the library. The old question of raising the instructors' salaries was broached, but it was deemed impracticable to arrive at any favorable decision until the endowment could be increased...
...said that a New Haven citizen has offered $50,000 to educate Josef Hoffman provided he be taken from the stage...
...York Alumni of Exeter met at the Hoffman House last evening...
...said that Josef Hoffman, the boy pianist, has been ill-treated by his managers, and steps are being taken to investigate the case...
...next article, a description of a Hoffman concert, is a very readable paper, but it is doubtful if the subject is one which interests the college at large. We have heard so much of the young musical phenomenon of late that little new can be said of him. Still the writer is very successful in what he attempts...