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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale preliminary catalogue shows a total enrollment of 1072; the number of students in the academic department is 737, a gain of 49 over last year; the number in the Sheffield school is 335, an increase of 30. The incoming freshman class numbers 340 students, 210 of whom are in the academic department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/7/1889 | See Source »

Contrary to recent precedent, Columbia will have a 'varsity eleven this year, and from this early stage the prospects for a creditable team are excellent. Since September 10 the candidates about 20 in number, have been in training quarters at Erastina, Staten Island, and the work they have accomplished there is encouraging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia's Eleven. | 10/5/1889 | See Source »

...number of graduates, interested in football, have subscribed for a cup to be awarded annually to the best kicker on the eleven. It is now on exhibition in Leavitt and Pierce's window. Captain Cumnock has received a letter stating the conditions as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Graduate Cup for Goal Kicking. | 10/4/1889 | See Source »

...going on at all the great colleges and universities, whether they are in Heidelberg, Germany, or in Cambridge, America. I have walked about the college grounds a good deal during my visit here, and I have seen many fine fellows among the students here. I have met a number of professor, too, and they are a set of cultivated and intelligent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford and Harvard. | 10/2/1889 | See Source »

Upanishad originally means "sessions" because the people were wont to sit in circles about the philosophers to learn of the doctrine. The ideas of the Upanishad were three in number. First, the existence of an eternal soul of souls; second, the invisible emanations from the soul, ill-understood, but known as mind; and lastly the method of arresting the migration of the mind and restoring it at length to the soul. This is a grander conception than any other ancient religion. These woodmen the Brahmins call God by three different names. "Sut," meaning being; "Chit," intelligence; "Anando," bliss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sir Edwin Arnold's Lecture. | 10/2/1889 | See Source »

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