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...sections of the United States and Canada; and it is probable that fully five hundred institutions will thus be represented. Among those attending there will also be professors, editors of religious papers, national leaders of young peoples organizations, returned missionaries and representatives of Foreign Mission Boards. The three previous conventions were held at Cleveland in 1891, at Detroit in 1894 and at Cleveland in 1898. Over 2,200 attended the last convention...
...accessions to the University Library during the year are placed at 24,238, of which more than half were received at Gore Hall and about one-fourth at the Law School. The number of volumes added to Gore Hall is less than in the two previous years, but exceeds the average of the ten years preceding (10,731) by about 3,000 volumes. The total number of volumes received by the library in the past three years is only a little less than the total of the previous five years...
Gifts of money during the year amounted to $15,400, the largest of which--$10,000--was received under the will of the late Governor Roger Wolcott '70, to be added to a previous gift of the same amount establishing the J. Huntington Wolcott Fund for "the purchase of books of permanent value, the preference being given to works of history, political economy, and sociology...
...management of the University basketball team has engaged Thomas Riley, of the Webster basketball team, as coach during the next two weeks, previous to the games with Yale and Princeton. The two games with Cornell showed that the team lacked accuracy in tossing goals and in passing the ball. The coach will devote most of his time to drilling the men in these two departments of the game, so that the team may be in much better condition when it meets Yale than it was in the Cornell games...
...international match to each of the presidents of the Oxford and Cambridge chess clubs. At the recent meeting of the representatives of Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Harvard at the Intercollegiate Chess Tournament Rice was appointed to make arrangements for the match. Owing to the absence of any official, previous to Rice's appointment, properly commissioned to arrange the match there has been some delay in sending the challenge. The challenge is sent in behalf of Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Harvard to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge proposing that a fourth chess match for the International Universities Chess Trophy...