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...year trials for the University glee club, Thursday, the following seventeen men were retained for further trial and will report at the next rehearsal...
...character of the eruptions of Mt. Pelee give a basis for a calculation that the French disregarded. The first explosion was on May 3, and explosions of increasing violence came on May 8, May 20, June 6, July 9, and August 30--that is, at intervals of five, twelve, seventeen, thirty-three and fifty- two days. Dr. Jaggar has had several men at work plotting curves to fill this series, and the general result points to about December 20 as the date of the next explosion, if this theory is correct. The action of Mt. Pelee bears a great analogy...
Yale has one governing board known as the Corporation, consisting of the President and seventeen Fellows, including the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, who are Fellows ex officio. Of the other fifteen, six are elected by the graduates for terms of six years; nine hold office without limit of tenure, and vacancies in their number are filled by the Corporation...
...Dean Academy on Saturday afternoon in an interesting game by the score of 4 to 1. The wretched batting of the Freshmen prevented a better showing as the pitching and fielding were good. Patch pitched a steady, though not remarkable, game for Dean Academy, and succeeded in striking out seventeen men. Only in the second inning were the Freshmen able to hit consecutively, when a single by Maguire and a two-base hit by Adams scored the only run made...
...inventory of the estate of the late George Smith '53, of St. Louis, which has recently been sent to the Corporation by the executors, indicates that the amount which will come to the University will be about $250,000. It would seem likely, therefore, that seventeen or eighteen years must elapse before the three dormitories provided for can be erected, for the will directs that if the amount is less than $450,000, the fund must be allowed to accumulate until that amount is reached, before construction can begin...