Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...base ball player. An influential member of the Harvard nine was in town yesterday and today endeavoring to get Ammerman to leave Pennsylvania and enter Harvard. He offered to have Ammerman's tuition and board at Harvard paid and give him a cash bonus besides. He even went so far as to tell Ammerman that there was a ticket to Boston waiting for him at the Pennsylvania railroad station. Ammerman refused his offer and said he went to Pennsylvania on his own account and would go to no institution on other terms...
Being somewhat interested in athletics at Harvard I determined to investigate the truth of the above and I give below the results thus far obtained...
...work at the Harvard Observatory is, at present principally devoted to stellar photography. Observations are made as far south as 25 degrees beyond the equator, while the expedition sent to South America is completing the observations in the southern hemisphere. A new photographic telescope has been added to the apparatus of the Observatory similar to the 7 inch Bates telescope in Peru. The instrument consists of a telescope with an adjustment for a photographic plate holder...
...number of students in Cornell this year suggests some interesting comparisons between the university of today and that of ten years ago. In 1880 there were fourteen graduate, and three hundred and eighty-five undergraduate students at Cornell, and the corps of instructors numbered forty-eight. So far this year the total number of students registered is 1306. an increase of 132 over the number in the university at the same time last year. The number of professors and instructors is 102, and there are 23 other officers engaged in administrative and special work. The number of graduate students...
...charge of W. Alexander who coached last year's freshman crew. About thirty football men have handed in their names and will begin work soon but they are as yet unclassified. All these crews are working on one set of worn out weights so that the work is far from satisfactory...