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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...summary of the work of the society last year. There were 115 students distributed into fifty five classes; and directed by forty-one professors and instructors of Harvard college. During the ten years there has been a steady growth in the work, as shown by the increase in the number of students. In 1879-80 there were twenty-five students; the tuition fees amounted to $3. 725.00, and the instructors received $5, 171.00. Last year with 115 students, the tuition fees amounted to $15.410.69, and the instructors received...
...number of schools and colleges in which the graduates find opportunities for work is increasing every year. Several have found positions in New York city, and it is doubtless in some degree owing to that fact that the number of candidates for the Harvard examinations for women in that city has materially increased...
...used to even a greater extent than usual during the year, and the librarian and his assistants have offered the students many advantages in carrying on their work. The reference library has increased through the influence of the library committee, and by the generosity of friends, and it now numbers 2893 volumes, many of which are of great value-an increase of 677 volumes. A number of books have been given to the library during the year, notably a collection of German and French books which came in two large boxes from an unknown source...
...rigs. The Yale and Harvard crews are rigged practically alike. The characteristics of their rigging are the short stretchers, and slides as long as a man naturally can use and varying for each man. In England every stretcher is fixed at an angle of 45 degrees and the exact number of inches the crew can slide fixed by the coach. In the Oxford and Cambridge crews this is from 15 to 151/2 inches, and is exactly the same for a long man as for a short man. The seat is then stopped 1,1/2 inches from the pin toward...
...annual Fall Athletic games held last month, no college records were broken although a number of close records were made. No particularly promising material for this branch of athletics has as yet been shown among the freshmen. In order to keep up the interest in and encourage long distance running a series of Hare and Hounds runs are to be held Saturday afternoons...