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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bourne adduces as another reason to account for Yale's slow growth, the fact that "some sixty per cent. of her students come from outside the state, a large proportion from the West;" that the Western colleges have been improving rapidly of late, and that thus the competition with Yale for this Western contingent is increasing from year to year, - the result of which is detrimental to Yale. Mr. Bourne wholly forgets the fact that Harvard's percentage of undergraduates from the West is not decreasing, but, on the contrary, is growing rapidly and continually. What explanation can he offer...
...spring approaches it grows imperatively necessary that the ventilation in the library be improved. All through the winter the air in Gore Hall has been unbearable, not so much on account of too much heat, as on account of too little ventilation. The quality of the air, if chemically tested, would no doubt arouse the solicitude of those who would seem to be so considerate of the students' eyes. As the hall has no regular facilities for ventilation, the upper windows ought to be opened for a short time at regular intervals during the day time. This may be impossible...
English VI. Oral discussion, opened by Messrs. Barton and Boyden. Should Secretary Garland resign on account of the Telephone Suit. Sever...
Yesterday we published a brief account of the men who are in training for the freshman nine. Of course it is much too early for any very definite idea to be gained as to what sort of a team this will be, yet from the number of men in training and the spirit with which they go to work, we can expect the very best results. Several of the candidates have had an amount of previous experience which will be not only of great benefit to them but to the other members of the team as well. If the freshmen...
...private journal of the late John Langdon Sibley, is found a very amusing account of the burial services in honor of the game of foot-ball which was forbidden by the faculty in the year 1860. Below is given that account in Mr. Sibley's own words...