Word: class
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...undergraduates. In 1875 there were five alumni associations. Now there are nineteen, all working actively for the college. In 1879, twenty-eight states and territories, and three foreign countries were represented among the students, while in 1889, thirty-five states and territories, and eight foreign countries were represented. Each class now on its decennial reunion leaves in the college some record of its existence. Seventy-six has given $1000, the yearly interest of which forms a prize for which representatives of the four classes compete in debate on February 22d. Seventy-seven presented the Biological laboratory; Seventy-eight founded...
...Daniei Ayres of Brooklyn, whose liberal gift of $250,000 to Wesleyan college has been announced is a graduate of Princeton in the class of '42. All his sympathies, however, have been with Wesleyan, where he spent three years in the college before going to Princeton. Wesleyan gave him an honorary degree of LL. D. in 1856. Last year Dr. Ayres founded the chair of biology with a gift of $50,000. The new endowment which the faculty and trustees hope to double from other sources, will be devoted to the elevation of the standard of the college more especially...
...seldom been so much earnestness, energy and purpose in the athletic spirit of the university; we are going to work very seriously to make our athletic teams of the future more successful in their contests with the representatives of other colleges. It is useless to hope that the old class feeling, and the intensity it gave to the athletic spirit, will ever come back; nor is it desirable that it should. Our athletics must in the future be conducted on a broader basis than they have been in the past. They are now rapidly coming to be regarded...
NINETY-ONE CREW-All candidates for the junior class crew will meet at 36 Hilton block, Tuesday evening, January...
...window seat cushion, 1 oak bedstead, 1 bureau, 1 commode, 1 spring bed, 1 hair mattrass, 1 feather pillow, 1 bolster, 1 lounge, 1 sofa pillow, 1 cherry cabinet desk. Being the same property attached by me on the original writ May 25 1889. The above is all first-class...