Word: counts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Columbia has decided to hold a summer session from July 5 to August 23. Twenty-seven courses will be offered with thirty lectures to each course, and the work will count toward degrees and towards the Teacher's College diplomas. An important feature of the session will be the School of Practice and Observation, where teachers will have opportunities to observe and discuss practical aspects of teaching in connection with their study of the historical and theoretical methods...
...next year, playing for the first time with eleven men, Yale won by a score of one goal to nothing. Harvard made two touchdowns, but by previous agreement, these did not count. In 1877 Yale again wanted to play with elevens, but the Association to which Harvard belonged prescribed fifteen players. The game could not therefore be arranged. The next year however, Yale yielded to the demands of the Association, and games were played with fifteens until 1880, when the eleven was finally adopted...
Through the generosity of Assistant Professor Coolidge and of Mr. J. Randolph Coolidge of Boston, the Library has lately been enabled to buy the great collection of books formed by Count Paul Riant, who died in 1888, relating to the Crusades and the History of the Latin East...
...Count Riant was a thorough scholar, who had devoted his life to the study of the Crusades and all historical questions connected with them. As the founder of the "Societe de l' Orient Latin," as a prolific author, and as a keen learned expert in the study of manuscript, he has done more than any other modern writer to advance our knowledge in this field. At his chateau in the Valadis where he passed his summers, he had gathered a great library of books relating to the subject of his studies, and it is the portion of this collection relating...
Another smaller portion of Count Riant's library relating to Scandinavia was bought some years ago by Yale University...