Word: phoenix
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senior class at Columbia has decided to place as a memorial an open fire-place costing about $500, in the west wall of Phoenix Collection Hall of Columbia College directly under the portrait of President Barnard. The fire place will bear the inscription "Fugit Irreparabile Tempus," and the date...
...gift and by bequest. W. W. Corcoran gave $170,000 to Colombian University in money and land. Benjamin Bussey gave real estate worth $500,000 to Harvard University. Samuel Williston, William J. Walker, and Samuel A. Hitchcock gave between $100,000 and $200,000 each to Amherst College. Whitmer Phoenix gave the bulk of his property, amounting to about $640,000 to Columbia College. J. B. Trevor gave $179,000 to Rochester Theological Seminary. Matthew Vassar gave $800,000 to Vassar College. Gardner Colby gave $170,000 to Colby University and $100,000 to Newton Theological Seminary. J. B. Colgate...
...Cambridge landlady calls a boarder "Phoenix," because he rises from the hashes and flies...
...editors of the Swarthmore Phoenix are required to submit to the Faculty all manuscript intended for publication...
...informers in the recent Phoenix Park murder trials are to be sent out of Ireland...