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...announced recently, Harold S. Vanderbilt '07 of New York City has given to the University an additional sum of $575,000 which completes the fund for the new dormitory of the Medical School, soon to be erected on Longwood Avenue, Brookline...
According to Yale tradition, when Vanderbilt Hall was built at the far end of the campus it was the first undergraduate dormitory to have plumbing and running water installed. Previously the campus pump had served all ablutionary and minor beverage requirements, winter in and summer out. The luxury of the projected Vanderbilt outraged the Yale alumni to the point of frenzy and many were the heated protests against its brass faucets and hot showers. What was Yale coming to? Such gilded youth as these would never beat Harvard in football. Running water indeed! In their time...
District Attorney Jerome of Manhattan was trying to obtain evidence against Richard A. Canfield, famed gambler. Vanderbilt was known to be a frequenter of Canfield's place; dowagers who had never set foot therein avowed that he had often lost as much as $75,000 in one evening. The attorney subpoenaed him as a witness. He, with a gentleman's reticence for airing his losses in public, avoided the subpoena. Hundreds of detectives believing him to be concealed in his Manhattan house, beleaguered the place. The press played up the episode as a farce. Crowds gathered to stare...
...LADies and gentlemen; that is Reggie Vanderbilt's house. He is hiding in there. The detectives are waiting for him. But they...
...Vanderbilt escaped in disguise so that he could attend the Philadelphia horseshow...