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Tolman Wheeler, of Chicago, has donated a valuable tract of land in the western division of that city, and advanced $290,000 towards the erection of a preparatory school under the care of the Episcopal church. The design is to be after that of Oxford, a prominent feature of the structure being a chapel and a library to contain 10,000 volumes...
...once a student at the University of Pennsylvania, and he has talked seriously recently of giving up baseball and going back to finish his course. Humphries, who caught for the League team here the last season, is a Cornell man, and Mountain who has been pitching for a Western club, was a student at Union. Richmond, the left-banded pitcher, was a Brown man, and, when he joined the Worcesters first the college catcher went with him. The Brown pitcher some years back, Saulsbury, played with professional clubs for several years, and a representative of Princeton, a gentleman with...
...year. After paying an appropriate tribute to those persons connected with the university who have died or resigned during the year, the president speaks on the subject of the increase of students during the past eight years, which is shown to have come mainly from the middle and Western States and not from New England as formerly. This is principally due to the slow increase of population in the New England States and to the great numbers of well-to-do families now coming up in the Western States and territories. "Sixty years ago 79 per cent of the students...
...stand. From tine to time, down to 1883, when the last purchase was made, various lots of land were added as the requirements and needs of the college in creased. In the earliest times the old town palisades, to keep away the Indians, ran not far from the western line of the present grounds. At the Harvard Square corner was an eminence, which must have been leveled, known as "Watch Hill," upon which a sentry was stationed. Where University now stands was formerly the college wood yard and nearer Stoughton was a small brew house. The portion near Sever Hall...
Later a white wooden paling closed the western side; but this in time gave way to the present solid fence. In the early part of the present century only the oldest of the trees were standing. President Quincy planted most of the remainder; and it is to his fore sight that we owe our thanks every spring for the pleasant and grateful shade of our great elms. The paths are many of them simply old short cuts regularly laid out and the slate, brick and plank walks are of quite recent construction. Of the grounds of all the various colleges...