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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...assembly of over 200 enthusiastic students watched yesterday's game between the seniors and sophomores. Jarvis Field was so thoroughly soaked by the rain of the past three days that it bore more resemblance to a bog than to a foot-ball ground. Along the base lines of the old diamond ran turbulent little rivers, continually replenished by the driving rain. On each side of the field were clusters of umbrellas that seemed to have sprung into existence like a mushroom crop...
...report of the financies of Yale College for the past year shows that the expenses of the college greatly exceeded the income. While one or two departments of the college succeeded in registering a slight surplus over their expenses, the academical department ran greatly in arrears. Various reasons have been assigned for the deficit, but the cause is yet somewhat in doubt. Some remarks have been made connecting the matter with the recent resignation of President Porter. But this explanation can be hardly satisfactory And yet the college, if we may judge from the unprecedented size of the present freshman...
...Inter-collegiate Association has, for the past several years, given strength and life to foot-ball. Harvard, Yale and Princeton, the three leading universities, have been members of this association, and at times the only members. Under the care of the three above colleges, foot-ball has been brought to its present standard of excellence, which still, when compared with the play in England, is very...
...Collegiate Instruction of Women by Professors and other Instructors of Harvard College." The executive officers of the association are, president, Mrs. Louis Agassiz; secretary, Mr. Arthur Gilman; treasurer, Miss Alice M. Longfellow. Many of Harvard's most noted professors are members of the corporation. The important event of the past year is the purchase for the use of the society of the Fay estate, 10 Garden street, at a cost of $20,000. This sum is to be paid by subscriptions, of which $11,375 has been already paid in. One hundred volumes have been added to the Reference Library...
...Harvard library has been open to the students of the society, and the librarian and his assistants have given them valuable aid in the selection of books, as well as many facilities for their use. During the past year, 44 certificates of study have been granted by the society; 39 of these for courses of one or more studies carried through the year; 1 for work done through four years, corresponding to the degree of A. B. at Harvard; 2 for second year honors in classics; 1 for final highest honors in classics...