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...club are necessarily large and as its work expands will inevitably increase fully as fast as will the receipts from member-ship dues. Any addition to the dues exacted from each member is certainly to be avoided if possible. The chief object of the club is to induce the largest possible number of men to learn to row, and no small part of the success already attained is due to the very moderate charges. Everyone who has used the club knows that the he gets a most liberal return for his money, and this fact acts as a constant incentive...
...response to the second call for candidates for the Freshman crew, 153 men presented themselves yesterday afternoon at the rowing room of the Gymnasium. Of these, 109 came out at the first call on November 2. The total number of men is by far the largest that ever came out for a class crew, the number last year being under a hundred. Captain Goodrich addressed the candidates, briefly outlining the work of the next few weeks. The regular work which will be very light until after Christmas, will begin on Monday...
Ohio has the largest number of college students...
...Library will soon have a valuable addition in the form of a general Spanish Encyclopaedia. This elaborate work, comprising twenty-five volumes, is the largest and most complete ever published. Thus far twenty volumes have been finished...
Photographic telescopes of different sizes were used, the aperture of the largest being eleven inches. Most of the plates, which were taken, have been developed, but they show only one prominent meteor of the first magnitude. In all, forty or fifty meteors were counted, which were small, with few exceptions. Bright meteors were scarce, and their trails short for the most part. The immediate results of the observations were not specially prominent, but as this was the first organized work of the kind in recent years, as much was accomplished as could have been expected...