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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...increase in registration this fall is very marked, each of the three classes being larger than in any previous year. Of the third year class 21 percent did not return, as against 32, 28, 36, 30, 34, and 44 per cent respectively, in six preceding years. The second year men failing to return make only 12 percent of the whole class, as against 25, 7, 23, 28, 24, and 27 per cent in former years...
...third year class 42 per cent are Harvard graduates, of the second year class 35 per cent, and of the first year class 38 per cent. In the entering class there are 89 Harvard graduates, 112 graduates of other colleges, and 31 Harvard Seniors on leave of absence who are the only men in the school who hold no degrees. As the rule allowing persons qualified for the Senior class of Harvard College to enter the Law School as regular students without examination has been abolished, there will be in the future practically no one in the first year class...
...Princeton, Minnesota, Beloit and Wisconsin the students pay a fee of one dollar per half year in addition to the regular tuition fee, for athletic purposes...
...match a meeting was held to elect the officers of the association for 1899-1900 with the following result: President, E. Mallinckrodt, Jr., Harvard; secretary and treasurer, H. Hughart Laughlin, Princeton. Resolutions were passed combining the positions of secretary and treasurer and making future matches consist of 50 rounds per man instead of the present 30. The next shoot will be held in May at New Haven...
...observation of the Leonid meteor showers have met with little success. This is due in part to the recent bad weather. 158 meteors, however, were observed and photographed, 58 of which were Leonids. At one time during the night the meteors appeared at the rate of one per minute and in some cases were of the first magnitude in brightness. They did not constitute a shower...