Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...United States and Canada. This year the convention is to be at Cleveland by invitation of the Young Men's Christian Association of that city, and will be unusually interesting and well attended. About 1500 delegates will be present from nearly 300 colleges, and in addition a large number of professors, returned missionaries, representatives of mission boards, and editors of leading religious papers. The object of the meeting is chiefly for the purpose of promoting interest in foreign missions among students...
From the total number of candidates 20 men will be selected in April after the recess, to form the 'Varsity and second crews. Later, in May, a second race will be held of class crews formed after the provisional selection of the 'Varsity material. 16 men will go to New London...
...CRIMSON takes great pleasure in welcoming to Cambridge, President William DeWitt Hyde, of Bowdoin College, who begins tomorrow night his term of service as University Preacher. Though, as a graduate of Harvard, President Hyde is one of our own number and doubtless feels a special interest on that account in the service to which he has been invited, yet as the head of a neighboring college, he performs an act of friendship and courtesy in coming here, which cannot fail to be appreciated, especially as it necessitates a complete interruption, for the time being, of his action and valued work...
...most interesting results of the year's work have been in the observations made with the meridian photometer, and in the experiments with kites at the Blue Hill Observatory. As a result of observations taken on 152 nights the total number of photometric settings is 100, 052, which is greater than that obtained in any previous year. The observations of all the stars north of 40 degrees, of the magnitude of 7.5 and brighter, are nearly completed. The exploration of the upper air with kites lifting automatic instruments which record atmospheric conditions has been continued. Last September records were brought...
...regrettable that so many college writers try to be merely clever and so waste their power. An instance of this in the present number of the Advocate is "Three Dialogues and a Monologue." It does succeed in being clever. It concerns a young man and a young woman who understand each other well enough to be in a delightful relation of good fellowship, which makes their dialogue amusing and very readable...