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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pursuits and many of his writings have been published. At the time of his death he was president of the Liberal Club and of the Harvard Club of Western New York and Chancellor of the University of Buffalo, and he had held many other offices. He stood at the head of the legal profession in Buffalo and the flags on the City Hall were displayed at half mast and all the courts were adjourned when the news of his death became known...
...White, the head master of Berkeley School, is planning several changes in the cinder-track at Berkely Oval, where the intercollegiate championships were held last year. The straight-away will be widened by about 6 feet and the corners will be well banked. This will admit of at least two more contestants running at once in the dashes and should result in cutting down the time in the bicycle race considerably...
...made their appearance among the student body but the regular time for the latter is approaching. The usual experience is to have from forty to fifty cases of measles from the last of February to to the end of April. The first symptoms are a cold in the head and a sore throat. Students that have these symptoms should be careful, while the nature of their case is uncertain, to keep themselves isolated as much as possible from their friends. Above all, they should be particular about keeping out of card games of all kinds, as playing-cards...
...United States, and from Minneapolis the testimony in his favor is especially favorable. The Boston Transcript in commenting editorially upon his appointment, says: "Everything seems to indicate that the new librarian has books in his blood, so to speak, and also the executive ability which is needed by the head of a great library like ours. Mr. Putnam's record in connection with the Minneapolis library points to success in Boston...
...Faculty of Yale has furnished a translation of an account in a German paper of the Harvard Yale football game at Springfield. It is interesting as showing the ideas of American sports which are presented to the German public. The account comes from the Muenchener Neuste Nachrichten, under the head of "Brutal Sport...