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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...columns of that journal we learn that many colleges have taken hold of the subject energetically, and their rifle-clubs are looking around among their graduates for suitable men to coach them. Columbia claims Colonel Gildersleeve, and Williams will probably call on Mr. Orange Judd. The Forest and Stream also offers "to a college rifle-club, a member of which will furnish us with the best appropriate design for a vase or shield, a gold badge, to be shot for among themselves: said design to be engraved and printed in this paper as soon as accepted, due credit being given...
...variety of occupations of the fathers of students, showing that almost every class of society is represented, and that the greater part of the students are neither very rich nor very poor, - the proportions of the poor and of the rich, both small, being about equal. It is also shown that high education is hereditary in this country, as in all others. Another table shows that the constituency of the College has increased within the last ten years; the proportionate representation from New England having decreased and that from the Middle and Western States having increased, chiefly owing...
...profit by raising its standard, the improved class of students greatly enlarging the reputation and influence of the institution. Here, again, the Western States have increased their representation, supplying now about one fourth of the students, while New England supplies one half, and the number from the South is also larger...
...report of Dean Gurney shows that 164 students were conditioned last year; also that of the 318 candidates for the last Freshman Class, 294 presented French, forty-one per cent of whom failed, and 24 German of whom twenty-one per cent failed; showing that men trusted too much to a general knowledge of French. 7 Freshmen anticipated Latin, 8 Greek, 9 German, and 10 a whole or part of Mathematics, taking in their place electives in Latin, Greek. Mathematics, German, French, Italian, Spanish, History, Music, and Natural History. Voluntary attendance at recitations is most ingeniously and elaborately discussed, every...
...ball eleven and base ball nine, and the Secretary of the crew, were first read and accepted, after which remarks were made by the Captain of the crew, and Mr. Weld, '76, urging the great need of additional and liberal subscriptions to both the Freshman and University crews, and also proposing that a committee of five be appointed to manage the interests of the Freshman crew. Messrs. Welles, Mulligan, Van Rensselaer, Wright, and Crocker were appointed...