Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mock election for President and Vice-President of the United States, which the News held during the past week was entered into with general interest and enthusiasm. Eighteen hundred and forty-five ballots were cast, representing sixty-nine per cent of the entire university enrollment. McKinley received about eighty-one per cent of these votes...
...stands thirteen inches high and was made by Tiffany of New York. It bears the names of the winners of the intercollegiate tennis championship in singles and doubles for the past eight years...
...main part in the work of preparation for the important forensic contest with Princeton does not end, as the University at large has appeared to think in past years, with the fixture of these preliminary details. For these arrangements are but preliminaries. The success of the trial debate and the possibility of choosing the best men in the University depends on the individuals. Every man who will have a spare hour or two between now and November 10, should study the question for debate, and, whether he thinks he has any ability in public speaking or not, should contest...
Several new buildings are in course of construction at the university. One of the most important of these, the Flower Astronomical Observatory, will probably be ready for use in a few weeks. Owing to the lack of such a building in the past, the courses in astronomy have been limited almost entirely to theoretical work, and consequently have not been very popular. The completion of the Observatory with its imporved facilities for practical work, and the securing by Pennsylvania of Dr. Doolittle, recently of Lehigh University, should do much toward arousing more interest in this branch of study. Dr. Doolittle...
...students have naturally taken a great interest in the present campaign. Several political clubs have been very active, by far the most important of these, however, being the Sound Money Club of the University, which numbers about one thousand membes. The club has held several mass meetings during the past few weeks, which have been addressed by prominent speakers of Philadelphia and from other parts of the country...