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...games of the Amateur Athletic Union announced for January 19 at the Madison Square Garden. New York, promise to be an unprecedented success. There are about six hundred entries including a number of college men for the fourteen events. In the 75-yards dash alone there are one hundred and nine contestants, and among them, Robinson of Yale. Harmar, of Yale, will compete with seventy-four other athletes in the mile run. The entries for the running high jump number forty-seven, and among them is the name of Shearman of Yale. In the half-mile run, Harmar, of Yale...
...Fourteen New England colleges-Amherst, Boston University, Bowdoin, Brown, Colby, Dartmouth, Harvard, Smith, Trinity, Tufts, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Williams and Yale-have now joined the Commission on Admission Examinations, formed three years ago. This body consists of one member from the faculty of each college represented, and its excellent work is apparent in the advanced standard required in the recent catalogues of New England colleges in the requirements in English literature, which are now uniform in them all. The commission is now considering the subject of modern languages, and a higher proficiency in those branches also will probably be required. This...
...order to elevate the standard of college entrance examinations, fourteen New England colleges (including Harvard and Yale) have now joined the Commission on Admission Examinations. The commission, which will comprise one faculty member from each college, has still another object in view-the establishment of a system by which the requirements for admission will be more uniform than they are at present. The need of which has been felt by many young men who have been compelled to go to preparatory schools which made a specialty of fitting for some college other than the one they wished to enter. Thus...
...observations taken on January 1 by the Harvard party under Professor W. H. Pickering at Willows, Cal., were highly successful. The party consisted of Prof. Pickering and Messrs. S. Bayley, E. S. King and R. Black, and they, together with a number of local assistants, secured over fifty photographs. Fourteen telescopes and cameras were employed besides eight spectroscopes. The first contact was lost through clouds. The other three were observed at a duration of 11.8 seconds. Eight negatives were secured with a thirteen inch telescope, giving images two inches in diameter; nine with an eighteenth camera. Twenty-five negatives were...
...petition presented by Captain Willard was a strong one, setting forth in clear and concise terms the arguments for its favorable reception In addition to the elaborate text of the petition itself, there were presented letters from fourteen members of former teams, nine of whom were excaptains. The opinions of seven college presidents were appended to the petition, together with elaborate statistics on the Yale and Harvard scores of past years...