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Several prominent scientific societies will hold meetings in New Haven during the Christmas recess. The largest of these meetings will be that of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which includes the affiliated societies known as the American Morphological Society, the Association of American. Anatomists, the American Physiological Society, the American Psychological Society, the American Folk Lore Society, the Society of American Naturalists, the Society of Plant Morphology, and the Association of Anthropology. Dr. Sargent will read a paper on "The Relation of the Cephalic Index of Harvard students to Weight, Height, and Strength...
Michigan has 1742 students in the advanced departments, Pennsylvania 1690, Harvard 1685, and Columbia 1510. Michigan has the largest law school, 800 students, Columbia the largest medical school, 755, and Chicago the largest divinity school...
...held this year in the rooms of the Columbia Grammar School, New York City, beginning Christmas Day and continuing throughout Christmas week. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia will be represented. Each team will consist of two men and each member will play six games. The team with the largest percentage of games won will win the match. The silver loving cup, which has been won by Harvard teams for the last five years, will be again played for. The conditions are that the college winning it ten consecutive times will become the perpetual owner...
...game on Saturday ended in a tie, neither side being able to score. Disappointing and unsatisfactory as the result was from one point of view, it was, for the spectator, the finest football game ever played. Under ideal conditions of weather and grounds with the attendance of the largest crowd ever assembled on Soldiers Field or on any football field, the elevens of the two oldest and best universities in the country, in perfect physical condition, struggled two hours for the collegiate championship, and finally each gave up, without victory and yet unbeaten. The Harvard eleven had fought their...
...catalogue of Williams College gives the total number of students as 386, the largest in the history of the institution. Of these, 25 are graduate students, 83 seniors, 76 juniors, 78 sophomores, and 89 freshmen...