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...mingle with the guests, while able and willing to play, sing, converse fluently, tell a good story, give a recitation, or anything that will help to make an evening pass quickly and pleasantly . . . . The attendance of such persons, young or old, male or female, can be had for the sum of $10 per evening each." The News considers it a fine field for the impecunious college...
...school in the country in point of excellence in instruction and method. To Nathan Dane, an early resident of Massachusetts. is due the credit of aiding in the erection of the first building for the study of law at Harvard. In October, 1831, he advanced the sum of five thousand dollars toward the erection of a "Law College," and offered a loan of two thousand dollars more in order to enable the corporation to proceed immediately to the erection of a building. The Dane Law College was completed in October, 1832, and was then considered a model institution...
...recent graduate of the University of Cambridge, England, gave Dr. Lyman Abbott as his estimate of the total expenses of an undergraduate for a full year, including the long vacation, the sum of $1200. Dr. Abbott says the English college student is the "university gentleman." "No student smokes in the streets; no gentleman student drinks at a bar; drunkenness is rare and disgraceful; the wine parties that Tom Brown used to attend are going out of fashion; college rows and scrapes are things of the past; the ancient brawls between town and gown are no more known; hazing is unheard...
...alumni take up the matter of raising the $15,000 for the philosophical collection, and that the $50,000 needed in addition be raised in the Eastern States. It is proposed to ask for individual subscriptions of $5,000 each; then of $1,000, and so on till the sum is raised. President Seelye and several professors are doing what they can to place the college in as good condition as it held before the fire, and to do it speedily...
...John Jones, the Piccadilly tailor who recently died and bequeathed to the South Kensington Museum a choice collection of art objects, gave also, it appears, the sum of $1,000,000 to another public institution of exceptional worth and desert. At Ventnar, on the Isle of Wight, there was founded, some years ago, a hospital for consumptives, on the cottage system, and to this Mr. Jones has left his $1,000,000. The hospital is one of the youngest in the country and one of the best...