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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Congress yesterday debate continued on the Mississippi levee and postal bills. J. Russell Young was confirmed by the Senate as minister to China, and the report of the committee on appropriations investigating the alleged treasury abuses was submitted through its chairman, Mr. Alison. Many irregularities and false entries have been brought to light...
Several vague rumors have been in circulation the last day or two in regard to the price of board at Memorial for February. No report has yet been made, and will not be for a couple of days yet, but assurance is given that the price will not reach the extravagant estimate which rumor gives...
...following-named have been elected officers of the Yale Athletic Association for the coming year: President, Lymington, '83; vice-president, Carpenter, S. S. S.; secretary and treasurer, W. H. Jessup. The treasurer's report shows a balance of $332 in the treasury. Lymington and Corwith, '83, will be the Yale delegates to the next inter-collegiate convention...
Pres. McCosh denies the newspaper report that he is going to retire from Princeton College, and that Dr. Hall of New York will take his place. "In the first place," he said, "we have fifty more students at present than ever before, and our standard of scholarship is higher than ever. The only trouble we have had has been the mischief of a few thoughtless freshmen, and they have been punished, and we do not anticipate any repetition of such occurrences...
There appears to be considerable anxiety over the question of fire-escape apparatus for dormitories at Princeton and Yale. The last Princetonian had a satirical report of the burning of a college dormitory and attendant loss of life from insufficient means of escape for the inmates of the building. The Record also has lately been agitating this question; and now we learn from the Yale News that, "In each entry of Durfee one of the upmost story rooms is to be provided on the Elm-street side with a suitably attached knotted rope long enough to reach the ground...