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...efficient of all the departments at Harvard. The developments of recent years, especially in the direction of the class-room and laboratory libraries, have largely increased its usefulness. The annual growth is perfectly steady, and. while increasing continually the number of old books, serves to keep the library fully abreast of the times. An average addition of about ten thousand volumes and the same number of pamphlets has come to be looked for annually. During the last college year 9606 volumes were added to the central building, as against...
...Harvard clubs. Of late years the custom of inviting to these meetings the men from Cambridge who are directly engaged in the development of the college has grown very greatly. Mr. Abbot has pointed out with what eagerness the members of these clubs seek for opportunities to keep abreast with the advancements being made in their own college; and of how much practical good for our University such meetings prove...
...former of the two. The present library consists of 40, 000 volumes. There is a good foundation for the department of American History and a fairly good working library has been obtained in the classics, science, philosophy and general undergraduate work, but the lack of means to keep abreast with the times is sadly felt. The annual income of the present fund is but a thousand dollars a year, which, when divided up among a score of departments leaves each but a trifle; so that there is a strong opinion at Wesleyan that the gymnasium should be passed by this...
...yards scratch race W. C. Downs of Harvard beat W. C. Dohm of Princeton by about four feet. Downs started off with a lead of about three feet, Dohm following easily. About the half way point Dohm began to try to pass Downs, and drew up nearly abreast 50 yards from the finish, but Downs spurted and won by about 4 feet. Dohm was second, Devereux, N. Y. A. C., third. Time, 1m., 11 2-5 sec., which equals the world's record made by Meyers in 1882. H. L. Williams of Yale beat the American record...
...unfortunate. In the bicycle race her man took a header in the last lap, in the mile run her leading man was taken ill and had to be carried off, and in the 220-yards dash, Ellis fell within six feet of the finish with the Andover man just abreast...