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...emphasized the necessity of developing a strong team this year to keep the nine-year dual cup from Yale. Each university has won the cup four times, and its permanent possession rests with this year's team. Minot has offered three silver cups to the men showing the greatest "general merit" during the season. Winners of the three cups will be picked from men in the shot-put or hammer-throw, the high-jump or pole-vault, and the hurdles. The competition is open to all members of the University...
...world, and on which side is the balance of trade in brains, in favor of Europe or America? Where does the student go who wishes to be a master in physics, in zoology, in psychology, or any other field of learning? Not to any University in America. The greatest scholars of the world today are found in German, France, and England, not in America. Of the 43 men of the whole world who are pre-eminent in the 20 major branches of learning, we name only three who are Americans: Professor Richards, of Harvard, in chemistry; Professor Michaelson...
...Land, on the lower East Side of New York City. Mr. Denison is endeavoring to interest people in the work of all of the Boston city settlements, and to act as a central station by which the people of the Church are brought into connection with the points of greatest need...
...Library has received from Frederick W. Story '73, of Baltimore, a little volume of early sermons of the eighteenth century, prefixed to which is a pamphlet of the greatest rarity. This is Cotton Mather's "Poem Dedicated to the Memory of the Reverend and Excellent Mr. Urian Oakes, the late Pastor of Christ's Flock, and President of Harvard College, in Cambridge. Boston in New-England, printed for John Ratcliff, 1682." This is thought to be Cotton Mather's earliest publication, written when he was nineteen years old, and only one other copy of it has ever come to light...
...copper coins. Among the rarities in this collection are a fine specimen of Swedish plate money and a "Granby copper." The Granby coppers were struck by an ingenious blacksmith in Granby, Conn., in 1737, and, being made of unalloyed copper, quickly became worn, and are therefore now of the greatest rarity...