Word: patronizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accommodates 250 people. The marble statue of the Virgin Mary which was presented by Mme. La Roux of Paris, has been placed in the corridor, near the entrance to the chapel. The English Catholics at Rome have presented statues of St. Paul and St. Thomas Aquinas, who is the patron saint of the university, and these also have been placed in the corridor. In addition to the lecture hall, chapel, and parlors, the first floor contains class rooms, dinning rooms and kitchen...
...Henry W. Sage, the princely patron or Cornell University, has announced a gift of $300,000 for the endowment of the library, and his purpose to make good the cost of the library building, amounting to $200000, in case the University loses the McGraw-Fiske suit...
Rutgers College has recently received $25,000 from an unknown patron...
...different dress or ornament from those above named, except that in case of mourning he may add the customary badges. Students who are already furnished with clothes, not conforming to the uniform above requried, may continue to wear them on procuring the written request of a parent, guardian, or patron to that effect. Any student violating these regulations and persisting therein after admonition shall be dismissed from the college...
After the Revolution, Columbia College, having dropped its royal name and patron as well as its Tory president and Tory professors of history, took a fresh start under American auspices. An old broadside, preserved in the Columbia Library, contains the statutes of the college for 1785 and a "Plan of Education," whereby it appears that history was first taught in what was then a unique way for America. The Rev. John Gross, Professor of German and Geography, from 1784 to 1795, taught the sophomore class three times a week, in a course which was characterized as a "Description...