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...when, in reality, it is nothing but a cheap form of admission to the various sports. The sums raised among the undergraduates to maintain all the University teams do not greatly exceed what was subscribed by the College to keep up the crew alone twenty years ago, at a half as large as at present and represented far less wealth. In those days no team was self-supporting--all had to depend upon voluntary subscriptions, the total of which ahs steadily diminished. According to the report of the Graduate Treasurer for--the year 1889-90, the amount of money collected...
...occurred November 14-15. A vigilant watch resulted in the enumeration of 275 meteors, of which number 183 were Leonids--a larger proportion than in any previous years except 1898 and 1901. In 1998, there were 781 meteors recorded; three years later 431 meteors were counted in the eastern half of the sky. The search this year began at midnight, meteors appearing from that time in increasing numbers until an hourly rate of 134 was reached, and a fine shower seemed imminent. The rate, however, suddenly fell off, averaging only between 50 and 60 per hour during the rest...
...practice game yesterday afternoon the University hockey team defeated a team from the Cambridge Latin School by a score or 8 to 0. Play was slow and ragged in the first half and only three goals were scored. In the second half, however, the University team played fast and aggressively, scoring five goals and keeping the puck continually in the Latin School's territory. The team play of the University forwards was good. The men kept together well on the offensive and recovered quickly after losing the puck. In shooting, however, they were slow, and except in the latter part...
...candidate who receives the Fellowship will he required to spend at least one year in travel and study in Europe under the general direction of the Professor of Architecture. He will also be required to submit monthly reports of his progress and to sent at the end of each half-year a measured drawing of some monument of architecture approved by the Department...
...Dewitt in the weights, J. N. Carter in the hurdles, G. fox, Jr., in the broad jump, and G. M. Goldsmith in the quarter-mile. The members of last year's team who will be able to compete this year are Captain R. E. Williams in the mile and half-mile, S. Rulon-Miller '07 in the dashes, N. B. Tooker '06 in the high jump, J. L. Eisele '06 in the two-mile, J. C. Atlee '07 in the quarter-mile, and J. E. Grimes '08 in the broad jump...