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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...city. The streets are broad and the houses and grounds beautiful in this new part. The best view is obtained from the citadel which overhangs the city on the south. From here can be seen the far stretching plains, the Nile and the desert, with the pyramids beyond and close beneath domes and minarets of the city. The Moslem University, or Mosque of Azhar, was founded 900 years ago and has several thousand pupils, who pay no tuition; nor do the shieks, or professors, receive any salaries. The course is usually three years...
...close of the lecture many interesting views were shown, in which the chief points of Saracenic architecture were fully displayed...
...winter meetings are close at hand, and in consequence the gymnasium is crowded every afternoon. The number of candidates for the University and freshman nines has not changed, and the exercise remains the same-base-sliding, hand-ball and running. Yesterday, for the first time, the run of the University candidates was made out of doors. The wrestling class still continues, and many men are practicing on the rings and the parallel and horizontal bars. The work of the University and the class crews is unchanged, and the candidates for the Mott Haven team jump, vault and go through...
Towards the close of every year the academical department of Yale is in the habit of offering prizes, varying in value from $30 to $250 for excellence in essays in both English and the dead languages. This year $250 is offered for the best English essays; $100 for the man who pronounces an English oration in the best manner. For the best specimens of English composition five premiums of $12 each are offered...
...dazed for a moment, while Bangs scored well. At the end of the third round the men were so even that an extra round was thought necessary. At the end of this Bowen was declared the winner of the middle-weight cup. As is usual in case of a close decision, there was considerable discontent at the result. Harvard, on the whole, made a very poor showing, and her followers went home feeling rather sad and disgusted. The officers of the meeting were: W. A. Davis, referee of course; Harold G. Gross, '88, clerk of course; John Boyle O'Reilly...