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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...telescopes is of the finest French make. The mirror is four inches thick, for any plate would probably change its shape from expansion or flexure. The telescopic tube is jointed so as to be air-tight throughout and at the eye-piece. Its material is steel plate one thirty-second inch thick. The temperature of the room does not effect its interior and no fogging of the object glass has occurred during cold nights...
...lots as to the best means of settling the contest. The drawing gave F. W. Nichols, '92, first prize; F. M. Brown, '90, second, and S. W. Sturgis, '90, third. The games among these players have been so even that several attempts to play off the tie resulted in one victory and one defeat for each man. So much time has been consumed in these matches the only practicable means of finishing the tournament seemed an appeal to chance...
...that time there existed thirty-one academies, and eighteen colleges. Of the colleges, four were in New England: Dartmouth in New Hampshire, Harvard in Massachusetts, Brown in Rhode Island, Yale in Connecticut. New York had old Kings College, the name of which had since the Revolution been changed to Columbia College. New Jersey had Rutgers for the Dutch Reformed, and Princeton for the Presbyterians. In Pennsylvania there were the University of Pennsylvania and Dickinson College. Of the nine southern colleges, five were in Maryland; they were St. John's College at Annapolis, Georgetown College, now in the District of Columbia...
...whist tournament Chamberlin and Dickson beat Mulford and Greenleaf three games to one, tying with two other couples for second place in Section B. In the play-off Brown and Darling beat Burlingham and Everett three games to two, and Chamberlin and Dickson, three games to one, thus winning a place in the final round...
Last Saturday evening a meeting of the college advisory committee on football was held in New York, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. No especially important changes were made in the rules or constitution with the exception of one clause which was so changed that it will be impossible in the future for such complications to arise as came up last fall between Harvard and Yale. The article which reads "The two leading teams shall play in or near New York on Thanksgiving Day," was amended to read that: "when one of the teams is Harvard they shall play on grounds...