Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Angell's report to the board of regents, of Michigan University, notes an increase of thirty-six in the attendance of women during 1886-7, and a relative gain in numbers with respect to the male student. They now form nearly seventeen per cent. of the whole. He bears witness to their capacity to meet the severest tests of the common discipline, and says:- "The advantages derived from the University courses have proved as helpful to the women in their lives subsequent to their graduation as to the men." Of both sexes, he says: "The number of farmers' children...
...work after a certain fashion, our prospects seem hardly so good as they did when it was only a matter of conjecture who would try for the team. Mercur, '88, will probably pitch, with King, '89, as change pitcher, though some think King will show up in better form than Mercur. Who will catch it is impossible to say, and Harvard is greatly envied in having two catchers such as Campbell and Henshaw. But of course it is much to early too make any definite forecasts about the nine, and it will be impossible to know...
...Robert Waterston, $1000 for the library; Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, $2000 for salaries in the herbarium; Martin Brimmer, $2000; and John L. Gardner, $5000 toward the addition to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The total amount of gifts for immediate use is $36,024.59, and of gifts to form new funds or increase old ones, $987,551.14. The gifts from George W. Childs of a memorial window of the late Prof. Henry W. Long-fellow, to be placed in Memorial Hall, and from William E. Sparks, the historical manuscripts which belonged to his father, the late Jared Sparks...
STUDENTS wishing to form club tables on the co-operative plan, call at 12 Story street...
This committee was chosen late in the last college year for the purpose of auditing the accounts of the various athletic organizations in the University. It was further made its duty to prescribe the form in which these accounts should be kept; to dispose of any surplus which any of the organizations might have over certain specified sums; to ask for the resignation of any incompetent manager or treasurer; to preserve the records of the accounts of the organizations, and to make two reports each year. The committee chosen consisted of Mr. J. J. Storrow, of the Athletic Committee...