Word: records
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mark-attributable in no small degree to over-anxiety on the part of some freshmen to get on their class teams, and their ignorant on the subject of knowing how to combine their physical work with their study to the best advantage. In the matter of attendance the record of those who take a strong interest in athletics, although not perfect, is exceedingly good, and the number of cuts resulting from the absence of men who go away with university teams to support them, surprisingly small. It is therefore no wonder that, from all that can be gleaned...
...last twenty years and is based on an exhaustive mathematical computation of the marks received. The average standing of 1003 non-athletic men during the decade ending in 1878 was 2.65 on a scale of 4. During the next ten years it rose to 2.69 for 1227 men. The record of 101 athletic students during the first decade was 2.55. The averages of the members of the various university teams were as follows: Crew, first decade, 2.56, second decade, 2.52. Nine, first decade, 2.59; second decade, 2.40. Football eleven, first decade, 2.51; second decade, 2.68. The average of the track...
...addition to the regular record, is a long list of calculations based on the figures got from the records, some of which are extremely ingenious if not particularly valuable. One rather interesting fact is that of the whole number of graduates, 31 per cent, have become Methodist Episcopal ministers, and that Wesleyan has given to the world an aggregate of 8,540 years of Methodist preaching. Following the records is a bibliography of 150 pages, which sets forth every book or article written by Wesleyan alumni. The whole book is of about 700 pages, and has been prepared with such...
...University Library added 16,468 volumes-the largest number on record. Laboratory and class-room libraries, also, were increased in number to ten, six of which were opened till ten o'clock in the evening. The President calls attention in view of the rapidly increasing number of books and the present state of the reading room, to the growing needs of the library, and strongly urges that Gore Hall be given over to stacks and a new reading-room be built fitted with electric lights so that students may use reference books in the evening. For this purpose, however...
...junior appointment list was made public on Friday evening, and showed that the class of '90 had beaten the record made by '84, for the present junior class had 104 men on the list. Of these, 60 are eligible to write for the junior exhibition prize-an opportunity that few will neglect...