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SIRS-At one of the conventions of the Intercollegiate Football Association held in New York, Mr. Young delegate from Pennsylvania told Mr. Leeds delegate from Harvard, that he had seen a letter written by Captain Linn of the Harvard nine offering a certain man inducement to come to Harvard to play baseball. A few days later in its issue of November 16 under the heading "Harvard's Way of Doing it" the following article was published in the New York Herald. "Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 15. 1889.- Another instance of the prevalent and pernicious system of "ringing in" outsiders came...
...notice. Some elementary courses in Natural Science, and in History and Political Science have been struck off the list of electives in the departments of Science, Letters, Agriculture, and Chemistry. Under the head of Athletics the composition of the recently organized Cornell Athletic association is explained. It will be seen that representatives from the trustees, from the faculty, and from the student athletic organizations form this board. A faculty committee on athletics has also been appointed...
...nine in one thousand. In the district of Cambridge in which the college buildings are situated, the death rate is only about nine in one thousand for all ages, no higher than the death rate for the most favored ages in the state at large. Thus it will be seen that Harvard college is in a peculiarly healthy position. It is impossible to ascertain exactly what the mortality of the students is in any given year, for when a man falls sick he leaves college, and the authorities may never know whether he recovers or dies. But it is safe...
...last one hundred years our ideas on physical subjects have immensely advanced. Benjamin Franklin's machine for producing electricity is a hundred times as large as the one we use today, yet ours is a hundred times as powerful. The electric light used to be seen only on the lecturer's table, but now his thunder has been stolen by the practical men of the day, and electricity lights our streets. The German experiments are almost microscopic, though the conclusions drawn from them are enormous...
...Haven team. Bliss was also rushing well, and the good work of these men seemed to daze Harvard, for at 3.42 she allowed Yale to score a "fluke" touchdown; no goal. Score Harvard 18, Yale 4. The game was now characterized by more punting than is usually seen. Trafford had the better of Owsley and Harvard at last secured the ball at the centre. Fearing ran around the end and gained twenty-five yards. Frothingham and Upton carried the ball further ahead, and at 3.49 Fearing unfolded himself and ran around the Yale team and secured a touchdown. Goal. Score...