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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...evening of April 11 the Goethe Club of New York gave a dinner to Professor Hedge at Delmonico's. Dr. A. Ruppaner, the President of the Club, presided, and among those present were William Cullen Bryant, Bayard Taylor, Rev. Drs. Bellows and Osgood, W. R. Alger, and others...
...keeping a representation at the Regatta, and the last year laboring under the unusual expense of two races, each requiring different boats and arrangements. The boat-builder's bills alone were nearly $2,000. Since then many changes have been made, greatly to the interest of the club, noticeable among them being the transfer of the boat-house property. At this time the management takes perhaps a justifiable pride in presenting the following statement, showing the club...
FROM the Commissioner of Education's special report on Libraries, we find that our Library has doubled within the last twenty years. Among the many prominent contributors of books was Charles Sumner, who during his lifetime gave to the Library more than two hundred and fifty maps, thirteen hundred volumes, and from fifteen to twenty thousand pamphlets; at his death he gave his own library of nearly four thousand volumes. In 1866, Charles Francis Adams gave a collection of forty-eight volumes printed in Great Britain in relation to the rebellion. The Library also contains one hundred and sixty-eight...
...looking over the old curriculum about which several Transcript correspondents have had lately so much to say, it will be found that the only subjects required twenty-five years ago and not now among the requisitions for a degree are Natural History and Curves and Planes. Of these two studies the first was a Sophomore and the second a Junior study. The amount of Latin and Greek read in 1850 was not much, if at all, greater than what the present student reads before entering upon his Sophomore year. Substitutions of the ancient and modern languages for the higher courses...
...total weight of the eight men is 1,371 pounds; the average 171 pounds. The weights are natural. Besides the above men F. J. Le Moyne, '77, and L. N. Littauer, '78, are among the number of candidates from which the crew will probably be selected...