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...nation. But the sports of the people react scarcely at all on the universities. In this country, on the contrary, as regards football, university sport is the sport of the people. The real name of 'American' football is intercollegiate football. Last fall, according to Parke Davis, more than six million persons paid to see American college teams play football. This very fact is one of the evils complained of by many thoughtful persons. But it is a fact, and a fact unalterable, because American colleges are essentially of the people, because they are not of a class, which, however much...
...just ready for setting. One hundred and forty-two carloads of limestone, which material will be used in work around the roofs, has been received. Only about one-third of this amount will be required, but the builders will thus be able to select the best pieces. A million and a half common bricks used for backing, have been laid, and also 360,000 cream-colored face-brick. Most of the metal sash is on hand and will be set in the near future. Contracts have recently been paced for a low-pressure heating system, and plans for roofing, skylight
...opportunities for the development of a well-rounded man, a man both physically and mentally strong. When, then, the hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars shown by the report plus the twelve thousand or so for the upkeep of Hemenway Gymnasium are placed beside the two and a half million odd expended yearly in the operation of the University, far from disproportionately large for athletics. They seem unusually reasonable. At least the body is in no danger of receiving a preponderance of attention over the mind...
...Freshman Dormitories, on Mt. Auburn street, or in the Yard, and still bring it near Soldiers Field and the boathouses. The new building will be so large that it will be impossible to use the site of the Hemenway Gymnasium. The committee will attempt to raise a million dollars, sixtenths of which will be used in the construction of the building and the reremainder as a maintenance fund...
...measuring of the brightness of the stars has occupied a large part of the time of the Observatory for thirty years. In this time, more than two million measurements were made of some 80,000 stars. In carrying on this work, a stations has been maintained in the southern hemisphere, at Arequipa, Peru, and the stars in that portion of the heavens have been observed by the same system as that used here in the northern hemisphere. As a result of the work of these two stations, a scale of magnitudes has now been established and accepted by international consent...