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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Annex was never in so flourishing a condition as it is at present. At the spring and fall examinations there were more applicants for admission than ever before. The freshman class now numbers thirteen members, and several more will undoubtedly join the class in the next few days. The Annex will probably have about 85 students as compared with 75 last year. A sign of the prosperity of the Annex is the large number of advanced special students, graduates of Smith, Wellesley, and other colleges. In physics, the class is the largest ever known, and astronomy is studied...
Capt. Brooks has commenced with the right principle, - practicing one single play a number of times, and compelling a player if he makes a poor catch, or a bad pass, to try the same again and again. Thus, should he ever find himself in that position during a match, he will know just what...
...specimens, and condemn the useless ones. Some thousands of innocent snakes and fish have been immured here for years, immolated to the cause of science, to be rudely dragged forth, condemned as "common" and haled to the offal-dock. Alcohol has been the ruin of nearly every reptile that ever indulged in it, as well as of nearly every man; though Professor Garman assured us that in a practically air-tight jar it did not require to be changed more than once in twenty years. Reptiles will keep for an indefinite number of years in this way, though they lose...
More applications for physical examinations have been made this year than ever before...
...present freshman class at Yale is the largest that has ever entered that institution; numbering 277. The cities sending the most representatives are: New Haven, 38; New York, 23; Chicago, 19; Cleveland and Cincinnatti, 7 each; St. Louis and Philadelphia, 6 each...