Word: harvards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Willys Terry, will stop coaching the Yale eleven tomorrow. On Monday Ray Thompkins '84, will take his place, and continue in charge of the rush line until the Yale Harvard game...
During the past year both the Harvard and Yale libraries have been used more extensively than ever before. From September 1, 1888, to August 31, 1889, there were 69,892 volumes taken from Gore hall alone. This does not include those taken out for one night only. During the same time 10,21 volumes were taken from the Yale university library. The Yale News contains the following summary of the way in which these volumes were distributed...
...impossible to compile a similar summary of the volumes taken from the Harvard library as no such records are kept. The greatest number of books taken in any one month from the Harvard library in this period was in March, when 6,124 volumes were drawn out. The greatest number was drawn out of the Yale library in February, when 1367 volumes were taken out; during the same month, 5332 volumes were drawn out from Gore hall...
...present the total number of books in the Harvard library is 268,551. There should be added to this number nearly 100,000 volumes which are in the twenty-one subsidiary libraries. Yale has a library of more than 140,000 volumes. Both libraries contain many thousand unbound pamphlets and works...
...meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Intercollegiate Foot Ball Association was held yesterday morning in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, Mr. Richards of Yale in the chair. The meeting was called by Harvard for an oral examination of Ames, Princeton's full-back, and Mr. Leeds, Harvard's delegate, proceeded at once to read evidence against Ames. Princeton objected on a point of order as the affidavit had been questioned before it had been received. The chair sustained Mr. Leeds, but was overruled by Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Wesleyan, the delegate from the latter college taking...