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Under Expenses, the workings of the new Foxcroft club are described. This club is a co-operative organization having commodious quarters adjoining the college yard. Separate articles of wholesome food are furnished to order at cost, making it possible to board at the club for from $2.50 to $3.50 a week. By using the club's study and reading rooms and its reference library, members are enabled to lodge cheaply at a distance from the university or in suburban towns. The annual fees of the club...
...changes which have been made during the year in the regulations, in regard to elective studies, freshman advisers, registration, scholarship and the conditions upon which the degree of Bachelor of Arts will be granted, are all embodied in the new catalogue...
...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, which has been established by the faculty, is given, and its duties detailed. Some space is also devoted to the new buildings being erected for athletic purposes-the Carey building on Holmes field, and the new boat house, gift of Mr. G. W. Weld; the exercise grounds, Holmes field, Jarvis field, and the new Norton field, are also described...
...brief summary of the games of the '92 freshman eleven is another new departure. The score of each game the '92 eleven played last year is given, together with the make up of the Harvard and Yale freshman teams. There is also a record of the Harvard-Yale freshman games since 1876, according to which Harvard has won the championship five times, Yale three times, draw twice, and no game three times...
...interior finish is almost entirely oak, the hall way and rooms being finished of that work. The instructors' desks of polished oak are all in position and the students' seats are being fast put in. Particular attention has been paid to the heating and ventilation of the building, some new apparatus being made in this direction. The temperature in each room is regulated by dampers worked by compressed air, which in turn are governed by electricity, so that the temperature is controlled automatically and kept constant. A large blower in the basement delivers air to the different rooms...