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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Co-operative Society has completed its calculations on the business done last year and the results are excellent. The total volume of business was $130,000 at the Cambridge store, and $40,000 at the Boston branch, which is the largest in the history of the society. The profits amounted to a little over $8,000, of which about 10 per cent was placed into the sinking fund, and about $7500 are now being divided among the stock-holders. The divided this year is 7 per cent on all purchases, being an increase of 1 per cent...
...these men have been divided into five sections, in which each man will play a one-game match with all the others, making his own arrangements for the matches. The results of these games must be handed in before October 21. The two men in each section winning the largest number of games will be qualified to enter for the final round. No prizes will be offered this year, as the object of the tournament is to pick a team for the intercollegiate contest which will take] place in New York this fall...
...five collections, the Child Memorial Library is the largest as well as the most valuable. Among its three thousand or more books are numbered the volumes of the "Early English Text Society," the "Chaucer Society," the "Parker Society," the "Percy Society," and the "Shakespeare Society." There are also complete sets of Wycliff's "Latin Works," of Shakespeare, Bulwer, Johnson's "Lives of the Poets," Dickens, Thackeray, Newman, Matthew Arnold, Browning, Tennyson and Stevenson. These are supplemented by many books on general literature and by the books required for reading in the courses on the several periods of English literature. With...
...following men have been elected officers of the Hawaiian Club. W. R. Castle, Jr. '00, president; J. Q. Wood 3L, secretary and treasurer. The club has twelve members, and is the largest of its kind in any American university...
...meeting of baseball candidates in the Trophy Room last night, one hundred and three men handed in their names. This is the largest squad that has ever come out for fall practice. The response to Captain Reid's call was particularly enthusiastic on the part of members of the Freshman class. Practice will begin Monday at 3.15 p. m., on Soldiers Field. The candidates follow...