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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most helpful events of the year to the institution has been the completion of the line of electric cars direct from Harvard Square to Roxbury, which gives very good connections between Cambridge and Jamaica Plain. One of the great drawbacks in past years to the Bussey Institution has been its distance from Cambridge and the inconvenience of getting from one place to the other. With this new line of cars, however, this difficulty has been somewhat remedied and it is now possible for students from the Bussey School to come over to Cambridge and take courses in Geology, Engineering...
...main feature of the past week at Yale has been the annual Junior Promenade, which was held on Tuesday, the nineteenth. It was a great success and notable for the reduction of expenses necessarily incurred by those attending. This result has been aimed at for some time and much satisfaction is expressed over the step taken this year. Grenville Parker '98 was chairman of the committee and Frank H. Simmons floor manager...
...first place it was urged that "there would be an endless preliminary manoeuvering to get in the front rank." This, I think, could be prevented by the marshals as it has been in the past. It is true that the increased number of men who would take part in the scrimmage might necessitate some more stringent regulation than has heretofore existed. It might be necessary for a rope to be drawn in a large circle around the Tree and held by the marshals. The Seniors, as they march in, could be required to keep their position as the rope...
...past two days Boardman has been ill, and his place has been taken by Horley '98. Yesterday, A. H. Rice '98 joined the squad for the first time. Captain Goodrich did all the coaching, none of the other coaches being present...
...invested funds of the University now amount to $8,526,813.67, an increase of $5,120,160.24 in twenty years. The general fall in the rate of interest during the past year has embarrassed many departments of the University which depend upon the income of permanent funds. During the year 1895 96 the amount of gifts and bequests to the University was $243,791.05. "During the same period at least five American universities, all situated outside of New England, received much larger additions to their endowments. If the primacy of Harvard University among American institutions of education...