Word: wealthiest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lydia Bradley, one of the wealthiest residents of Peoria, Hlinois, has just made known her intention of building a polytechnic institute, which, with the endowments, will amount to a gift of $1,000,000. It will accommodate 750 pupils...
...University News. The Russian gymnasium is a school corresponding to our high schools, but managed by the government and on the whole much like a military school. No one can enter a Russian University without a diploma from some gymnasium. The students in these gymnasiums belong necessarily to the wealthiest families as the course is rather expensive. There is on an average one gymnasium to every large city with an attendance ranging from 300 to 500. All officers and students are obliged to wear uniforms and are much limited in all their actions. No students are allowed out after...
...Chicago Athletic Association is nearly finished and when completed will surpass any other club house in America in variety and extent of equipment and apparatus. When the club house is thrown open to members the total outlay will have reached between $600,000 and $700,000. The wealthiest and most influential men in Chicago are interested in the new club, which was started a year ago. The membership is limited...