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...number on the waiting list at Memorial Hall is at present one hundred and fifty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/10/1889 | See Source »

...which was thought likely to become a fixture has been broken almost at the start. The only reason advanced for the refusal was that such a trip as that proposed is contrary to the whole policy of Harvard-that it is not her desire to advertise herself through any one of her organizations. The excuse given is hardly sound, for if the argument were consistently carried out intercollegiate athletics would be entirely abolished. In the first place we fail to see the unwisdom in allowing such an advertisement as Glee club trip. However much some may believe the contrary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/10/1889 | See Source »

...most valuable collection of rare books ever given to library is that of Charles Sumner, who left all his books, in themselves a library, to the college. Many of his books are of interest on account of their former owners, two or three having belonged to Louis XIV, one to Milton, and one to Samuel Johnson, besides Bunyan's Bible and Lord Byron's poems of Ossian. Others are interesting on account of their editions several belonging to the original editions of the fifteenth century. Among the rarest is a book of Aquinas' printed by Guttenberg There are also several...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rare Books in the Library. | 12/10/1889 | See Source »

...lens used is a Voigtlander rectilinear lens, corrected and adapted to the purpose in view. The aperture of the instrument is eight inches and a field of ten degrees square in the heavens can be photographed at one exposure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Astronomical Observatory. | 12/10/1889 | See Source »

...number of women in the university is 147, or 11.2 per cent, of the total. This is an increase of .8 per cent, over last year. There is very little variation in the proportion of women from year to year. Sage college accommodates one hundred of the above number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Growth of Cornell. | 12/9/1889 | See Source »

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