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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...calendar of the University of Michigan for this year will give the number of students in the university as 2,815, which is an increase of 156 over the attendance last year. The approximate amount which the university will receive in fees this year is $107,038, of which the 1,545 Michigan students pay $46,650 and the 1,270 students coming from other states...
...Corporation has in its possession $40,000 which can be used toward defraying the expenses of the alterations in Gore Hall. Of this amount $13,000 was subscribed some years ago by the alumni and undergraduates. The balance is the Gore fund, bequeathed by Governor Gore of Massachusetts, who died in 1841. The cost of the present improvements will be within the limit of $40,000, so that no appeal will be made to the graduates for the present at least...
...Intercollegiate football is injurious to the players. - (a) Physically. - (1) Liability to overwork. - (2) Nervous strain. - (3) Liability to injuries. - (b) Intellectually. - (1) Takes excessive amount of time. - (2) Takes excessive amount of thought. - (x) Total preoccupation before the great games. - (c) Morally. - (1) Encourages extravagance. - (2) Leads to vulgar notoriety. - (3) Engenders ill feeling between colleges. - (4) Dulls the sense of honor. - (5) Dulls the feeling and has a brutalizing influence. - (6) Establishes false ideals. - (x) Physical force placed above intellectual and moral qualities...
...this pressure of business and consequently the quarters are very much cramped. The furnishing department is the most crowded. Several new departments could be added to great advantage if the space permitted; for example a department for shoes and one for hats. The office is too small for the amount of bookkeeping which must necessarily be carried on, and the superintendent has no separate office. There is no probability, however, that any additional space can be provided for some time...
...expended with the least advantage the machine will suggest improvements which will remedy the defects. The machine will, above all, aid in finding out by scientific investigation how the ideal stroke can be attained. Oarsmen are all agreed that the ideal stroke is the one, which, with the least amount of energy expended, produces the greatest results; they are, however, divided in their opinions as to what this stroke is and how it can be achieved...