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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations at 60 East 23rd Street, New York, has just issued the Association "Year Book for 1888." This pamphlet of 200 pages contains among other matter the following: A valuable historical paper entitled "The Early Story of the Confederation of the American Associations," by William Chauncy Langdon, D. D., Annual Reports of the Secretaries and Corresponding Members of the International Committee indicating the present condition of the work in all parts of the United States and Canada. Full statistical reports of the American Associations, including the College, Railroad, German, Colored and Indian Departments...
...devoting their entire time to the local, State and international work as secretaries and assistants. There are twenty-three State Committees that employ one or more travelling secretaries, and the Innational Committee's Secretarial force numbers fourteen. Seventy-seven of the Associations are engaged specially in work among railroad men; 10 among German-speaking young men; 273 are in colleges; 39 are colored and 18 Indian. Two-hundred and twenty-six Associations report educational classes in from one to fifteen branches of study; 287 report special attention to physical culture through gymnasiums and outdoor sports; 398 Bible classes, 367 Bible...
There has evidently been some misunderstanding among members of the senior class as to the meaning of a sentence in the Class Day circular. We gladly call attention to the communication from the chairman of the committee, which ought to clear matters...
...experiences during the Franco-Prussian war, 1870, when, as a member of the Garde Mobile he assisted in the defence of Paris. In the early part of the war, under the government of Napoleon III, all military operations were marked by an incredible amount of carelessness and ignorance among those in authority. Army officers were appointed who knew nothing of military operations, and were far surpassed in knowledge, capacity, and even intelligence by many of the privates; the movement of parts of the army was delayed for days for lack of proper orders; at the end of long marches...
...second tenor, and Lund and Barry in the first tenor, will leave many vacant places behind them. The loss of so many well-trained voices will be severely felt next year, unless the ranks are filled by a large accession of men from Ninety-two or unless singers among the students offer themselves at the trial of candidates in the fall. There are numbers of men in college who have good voices, but who have never had their interest aroused so far as to seek membership in the Glee Club, or who have been diffident about presenting themselves. The club...