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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college Greek-letter fraternities in the United States have a membership of 100,000, with some 650 active and 350 inactive chapters. They own 70 houses or halls in various college towns and citles...
...Letter from Thomas Hughes...
Marks will be given out by letter or postal card only...
President Schurman of Cornell has issued the following letter: "I regret to announce that A. Abraham, of Brooklyn, has been defeated in this efforts to enrich Cornell University. Mr. Abraham anthorized me to purchase the late Ernest Renan's great oriental library as a gift to Cornell. His offer was on the point of aceptance when Mme. Calmanne Levy, widow of Renan's publisher, telegraphed that she will present it to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris...
Much general interest has been taken in the letters on various defects and needs of Yale life, in the opinion of faculty members, which the News published during the present year. The last letter, by Professor W. G. Sumner, takes a rather optimistic view and gives some sound advice to the student body. Professor Sumner has been closely identified with Yale for almost as long a time as any member of the faculty, so he knows whereof he speaks when he declares his convictions that the undergraduates here appreciate learning more than they did thirty years ago, a point which...