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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pierce Hall, and will require about nine hours per week, three of lectures to be arranged at the first meeting of the class and about six of laboratory. This is a course for students who have never studied bacteriology but who have never studied bacteriology but who wish to gain a general understanding of the relation of bacteria to the processes of nature, to chemistry, to sanitary science, and to health...
Statistics compiled from the managers' lists show that a total of 1137 men engaged in some from of athletics this fall. This is an increase of 144 over last year's total of 993. A slight gain is recorded in every sport except tennis in which case the total fell from 149 to 112, but this is at best only an approximate estimate deduced from the singles entries in the fall tournament. This might indicate that there is a tendency towards participating in some organized sport rather than developing individual play. Track shows the largest gain with a total...
Cornell has also won four intercollegiate track meets and will make a strong bid again this spring. Pennsylvania is the only other college with four legs on the track cup. Either college, winning the intercollegiate meet next spring will gain permanent possession of that trophy...
...second floor consists of three divisions, the print room, the photograph room, and the gallery of paintings. The raising of the roof will greatly enhance the facility of carrying on all departments, but the greatest gain is that of light for the main gallery and the stair corridor. A new sloping, slate roof has been built over the north exhibition room and the sky-lights have been considerably raised. The photograph rooms will have the advantage of added space on the side wings, and exhibition cases will be installed in the new quarters as soon as possible...
...slight loss in the term-time earnings is more than compensated by the earnings for the summer of 1913. For this period, 621 were registered, while 194 received employment, compared to the 611 registered and 145 employed for the preceding summer. Last summer, $40,025.85 was earned, showing a gain of $16,256.19 over 1912. Allowing for those men who registered for both term-time and summer work, 999 names are on the books of the Bureau...