Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...same house will shortly issue the third volume of its "American History Told by Contemporaries," which has been written by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart. It treats of the period of National Expansion, 1783 1845, embracing the consideration of the foundation and development of the Federal Constitution, the events following the War of 1812, and the early history of the slavery troubles...
...entire sales of the Co-operative society this year up to the Christmas recess amount to $101,518.68, an increase of $23,747.38 over the sales of the corresponding period last year. The increase in the different departments this year is as follows: Books, $5189.13; stationery, $5530.79; Mens Furnishings, 3162.20; Shoe-mending, $510.82; Tailoring, $5886.49; Furniture, 3457.71; Coal and Wood, $9.24. The society has now 2,393 members...
...following table gives the number of men from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Pennsylvania who have been on the All-American football teams for the last ten years, as chosen by Mr. Caspar Whitney. Besides these four colleges Cornell and West Point have each had two representatives during this period, and Columbia, Michigan, and Lafayette one apiece...
...outside representation of the University. Going a little further, however, I discovered that of the 692 men who entered in the fall of 1899, only 321, or 46 3-10 per cent, came from without the state. Here was a decrease of 1 3-10 per cent in a period of five years, for which I was at first quite unable to account. On thinking the matter over more carefully, however, I came to the conclusion that it was due to two causes, possibly three; first, the constant efforts of other eastern colleges to obtain fuller support from the west...
...means sure that a longer holiday would not be advisable. Other colleges find it possible to grant a week more than Harvard, and in at least two cases they require fully as much work during the college year. A longer break before the midyear period would be very acceptable to all and beneficial to a large majority of under-graduates. A Christmas trip would be as popular now with the members of the musical clubs as it was in former times, and would do more than any one thing to restore them to the place in College which they formerly...