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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale Athletic Association is holding a series of long distance handicap runs every Saturday, at the end of the season three prizes will be awarded to the three men scoring the largest number of points...
David Starr Jordan, a graduate of Cornell, who worked his way through college by hard, constant, untiring labor outside of school hours, is President of Stanford University at a salary of $13,000 a year, the largest salary paid to any college president in the United States...
Columbia College has 600 graduate students. - the largest number of any one college in the United States...
...Bussey Institution had the largest number of students since 1871-72. The gain, however, has not been maintained this year. As usual the Institution has sent a large supply of flowers for the classes in botany at Cambridge...
...Boston Athletic Association held its fourth annual indoor handicap meeting last Saturday evening in Mechanics Hall. The meeting was probably the largest and most interesting ever held by the association and much credit is due the management for the way in which the events took place, there being scarcely any delay, each event following in quick succession. The record for the running high jump which was held by G. R. Fearing '93, was broken by F. Sweeney of the Xavier A. C. who cleared 6 feet 2 1-2 inches, thus raising the record by one-fourth inch. Sweeney jumped...