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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale's first important game, that with Princeton, occurs a week from today. The make-up of the eleven is now pretty well determined. At present it seems probable that the team will be fully as strong as that of last year, all tales to the contrary notwithstanding. All of the men who have been laid up are now at work and the playing has much improved during the past week. Wallace and Stag are now playing ends. This is Wallace's fifth year. Stag is a new man at foot-ball, but is playing very well. Both tacklers, Gill...
...present there are twelve men at the freshman training table...
President Ladd said that the present administration had done more than its predecessors to rectify abuses, but that its representatives in the west were too often deficient in the qualities needed in their positions
...National Academy of Sciences was founded by the United States Government in 1863. Louis Agassiz, the noted naturalist, being its chief instigator. At the society's origin only fifty members were admitted, now the limit is one hundred, the present membership being ninety-six, of whom twelve are from Harvard. The members of the society offer to investigate without recompense, any scientific questions which the government authorities may present to them...
...arrangement of the specimens will probably take ten months, so that the rooms will not be open till next year. The proposed connection between the two museums will probably be made into laboratories for research in natural history inasmuch as there is great need for such accommodations at present...