Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Delegates from Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Union College, New York University and Haverford met in the Columbia Gymnasium on Wednesday and formed an intercollegiate gymnastic association. Harvard was not represented, but will join the association and will send a team to the meet which will probably be held next March at the Columbia Gymnasium. Temporary officers were elected and a committee was appointed to draw up a constitution and by-laws. The competition will be on parallel and horizontal bars, on swinging rings and horses and in tumbling and club swinging...
...Harvard team has planned out a scheme of work for the year. Owing to the regular system of class and apparatus work which will be given the team under the personal instruction of Mr. Dohs, a very large number of men have handed in their names. J. P. Jones '02 has been appointed manager, and efforts are being made to arrange dates for exhibitions and competitions...
...third year class 42 per cent are Harvard graduates, of the second year class 35 per cent, and of the first year class 38 per cent. In the entering class there are 89 Harvard graduates, 112 graduates of other colleges, and 31 Harvard Seniors on leave of absence who are the only men in the school who hold no degrees. As the rule allowing persons qualified for the Senior class of Harvard College to enter the Law School as regular students without examination has been abolished, there will be in the future practically no one in the first year class...
...money for the erection of the new University boat-house has been completed by the Harvard Club of New York. The amount asked for two years ago was $25,000, but the increased cost of building materials during the past six months has brought the required amount up to $27,500. The additional $2,500 is now offered by the New York graduates in addition to the previous amount. With the continuance of good weather, the building will be roofed over in a week and there will be no doubt of its completion by February 1 as originally intended...
...twenty seven regular courses offered this year in the various branches fifteen are conducted by Harvard men. A. M. Tozzer '00 is at the head of the educational department, and the men teaching are: English, A. W. Cooper '01, F. C. Tood '00, R. C. Hatch '00, W. T. Foster '01; French--E. B. Hilliard '00; German--W. M. Seaver '00; Greek--B. S. Welsch '01; History--S. G. Wellington '00, D. H. Farr '00; Mathematics--S. H. Batchelder 1L., K. B. Emerson '02, A. D. Wyman '01, H. Linenthal '00; Natural Science--G. B. Collier '01, W. F. Williams...