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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number on the waiting list at Memorial Hall is at present one hundred and fifty...
...customary the first pages of the Index contain the various social and literary organizations. The papers, the departmental clubs, the religious societies, the literary societies, the social clubs, the musical organizations, the school clubs, the state clubs, etc.- all are arranged most systematically, each by itself. In the list of class secretaries a change has been made. In the last Index when the secretary of a class was not known, it was so designated; this year, not only is the fact designated, but the name of some prominent member of the class is added...
...Cambridge stood at the head of the list of 45 cities in the union in which trustworthy statistics were taken. Its death rate was only 17.5 in 1000 while the death rate in the whole state of Massachusetts was about 20 in 1000. The death rate in the state between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five is only eight or nine in one thousand. In the district of Cambridge in which the college buildings are situated, the death rate is only about nine in one thousand for all ages, no higher than the death rate for the most favored...
...study of pedagogy. He declares that class reports show that teaching is universally more popular than any profession excepting the law and medicine, and yet the profession of teaching receives absolutely no attention at our universities. He further says, "The fact that teaching comes second and third on the list, although sufficient to show that some preparation for it should be provided, by no means shows the full importance of the subject. When we call to mind the very large number of college graduates who, though not teachers themselves, are serving on school committees as directors of teachers...
...pleasing contrast to the poor success of our university teams in recent years stands the record of victories won by the freshman teams. By defeating the Yale freshman eleven at New Haven Saturday, Ninety-three has added another victory to the long list. The game was played under discouraging circumstances,-on strange grounds and before spectators whose sympathies were almost entirely with the opposing team, and the credit of the victory is, therefore, all the greater. For in spite of the disheartening support received from the class, the freshman eleven played a steady game, not so good a game...