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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unfortunate that good reports are not at hand for the amounts given by the various classes for their freshman crews. The records have been obtained for only the last three years. The '95 musical clubs turned over to the crew manager over three hundred dollars; '94 fell below the usual average and gave only fifteen dollars; '93 netted almost one hundred and fifty dollars. So far as can be learned the average amount obtained each year was between a hundred and a hundred and fifty dollars. While his sum does not go a great way to pay the expenses...
...requirements for admission should be made harder. Only the best men are wanted, and the chief method to get the best men there, as here in the college, lies in these requirements for admission; the more difficult they are the better the men who pass them. On the other hand if the requirements are too severe they will doubtless tend to shut out many men who object already to requirements that call for four years study or their equivalent at college. At present the college and Medical School training of students, being of four years' duration, launches a man upon...
Captain King of the Princeton baseball +++ has already begun preparations for the coming athletic season. He has issued a notice requesting all candidates to hand in their names and positions. He has good material to start with. The entire nine of last year, except the battery, is in college. Of course the severest loss is felt in the battery. However, Drake and Humphreys, who were the substitute battery last year, are both in college this year. Their record last season was almost as good as that of Young and Brown. It is believed that with another season's practice they...
...National Magazine, of New York, the leading historical journal of the country, now in its seventeenth volume, is offering 14 cash prizes, aggregating $2,000. to be competed for during the coming year by new or old writers, who will try their hand at historical articles or stories. The plan is unique. The Editors wish to popularize the subject of American history, and say that they "hope to create such a general interest that local history and traditions will be everywhere taken up and preserved...
Winter, Wallis, and C. Bliss are the only members of the Yale eleven who will not be on hand for the team next fall...