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...following is a list of the other candidates and their former athletic experience: Galbreath, '91, weight 177 pounds, is an athlete of powerful frame and the best of judgment. He played center rush on the eleven last season, and has trained with the oar. J. Ford, '90, is a man of great endurance and has a cool head, is raw at rowing, but is expected to make one of the strongest men in the boat. T. E. Clark, '90, is a successful anchor in tug-of-war contests. A. W. Marston, '92, is showing up among the best...
...printing of the index to the subject-catalogue has proceeded slowly. Eighty pages are now in type, which brings the list...
...Chess and Whist Club, whose membership is limited to sixty, has nineteen men on the waiting list...
...percentage of the four college teams was 72. That of the crew was 69, the Mott Haven team 72, the nine 74, the lacrosse team 76. Only one of these 56 men had a mark of less than 40 per cent., while a member of the nine lead the list with 92 per cent. The average percentage of the freshman class in that year was 69; that of the freshman crew and nine, 61; of the lacrosse team, 67. The class of '86 had an average of 76. The average of the seniors in the university nine...
...addition to the regular record, is a long list of calculations based on the figures got from the records, some of which are extremely ingenious if not particularly valuable. One rather interesting fact is that of the whole number of graduates, 31 per cent, have become Methodist Episcopal ministers, and that Wesleyan has given to the world an aggregate of 8,540 years of Methodist preaching. Following the records is a bibliography of 150 pages, which sets forth every book or article written by Wesleyan alumni. The whole book is of about 700 pages, and has been prepared with such...