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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the past year Cornell University has increased wonderfully, both in point of numbers, there being 1114 students in attendance this year against 1010 last, and also in point of faculties for instruction. The corps of instructors has been strengthened by the appointment of professors of political economy, horticulture, electrical engineering, and an assistant professor of Greek. Two large buildings which are in process of erection will soon be ready for occupation, one the Christian Association Hall, presented by the late A. S. Barnes, and the other a building for the department of civil engineering and architecture. The foundations have...
...leading amateur club of this State, the Beacons, will probably be unable to put a nine in the field next season. The loss of this club will be felt here at Harvard, as the club has, in past years, been one of the 'varsity nine's best opponents...
...class does not come together as a class, outside of the prescribed recitations of the freshman year. The first real assemblage of every class takes place at the junior class dinner, which has thus become one of the most important events of the whole college course. In the past these dinners have always been productive of much good feeling. Giving, as they do, the first opportunity for the exchange of ideas and the celebration of the class glories, they have always been marked by great enthusiasm and have resulted in a strengthening of class loyalty. The Ninety class dinner will...
During the past year, many new laurels have been won, in almost every branch of record athletics, by members of the various athletic clubs. The colleges have held their own at every contest in which they have been represented, and, although at the Mott Haven meeting last May comparatively few records were broken, the account of the work that was done during the summer, at home and abroad, by college athletes, will have a prominent place in the annals of athletic sports. The leading athletic clubs have divided themselves into two associations, the National Amateur Athletic Association...
...year, opened after the holidays on Thursday morning, January 3. Nothing of importance has occurred during that time, as college is necessarily quiet during the opening weeks of that term. By reason of the mild weather the baseball men have been practicing out-doors some during the past few days, but most of the work has been almost entirely confined to the gymnasium. Princeton will suffer a great many disadvantages from the loss of the cage, which was destroyed by storm last Commencement, and which was expected to be of such service, especially in batting. Mercer Hall has been engaged...