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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of the general impression that '90 is to be the largest class that has ever entered college, the number of men who have registered up to date is exactly 260, but two more than that of the class of last year. In some particulars '90 has gained upon its predecessors, as a comparison of the following tables will show...
...first ballot for each office shall be informal. After the first formal ballot, all but the four candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be dropped, and the candidates receiving the smallest number of votes at each successive ballot shall be dropped after that ballot...
...class in the next few days. The Annex will probably have about 85 students as compared with 75 last year. A sign of the prosperity of the Annex is the large number of advanced special students, graduates of Smith, Wellesley, and other colleges. In physics, the class is the largest ever known, and astronomy is studied by a large number of students. So much interest has been taken in zoology that a second course has been added. In chemistry and physical geography the classes are larger than ever before, and an advanced course is to be given in botany...
...differences, of seven seales more or less on the head, the number of vertebrae in the spinal column, the rake of a fin - which go to determine the difference between one specie and another. The fangs of snakes are also curious things, those of the water-moccasin being the largest and most deadly. They lie hid in two sacs in the roof of the mouth, and are hidden, when the snake is quiet, like a cat's claws. The snake has regular noxillaries like any other carnivore, though it does not masticate its food. The fangs are only used when...
...present freshman class at Yale is the largest that has ever entered that institution; numbering 277. The cities sending the most representatives are: New Haven, 38; New York, 23; Chicago, 19; Cleveland and Cincinnatti, 7 each; St. Louis and Philadelphia, 6 each...