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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University gymnastic team will hold a joint exhibition meet with Yale in the Gymnasium this evening at 8 o'clock. Although the Yale team has had considerably more experience, there is every reason to expect a relatively good showing by the University team. Since the revival of the sport last year a small number of men have been practising regularly under the direction of Mr. Dohs and Captain G. F. Evans '05, and with the material added this year and the experience already gained, the team should show considerable improvement over last year's exhibition with Columbia...
...self-supporting, but the other teams have relied upon subscriptions to pay off part of their yearly deficit, and the credit balance every year has sooner or later been used for permanent improvements of some sort. The subscription business, however, has become a nuisance. The Graduate Treasurer's reports show that the number of University teams which collect subscriptions has increased from two in 1898 to seven in 1904. Receipts from other sources have steadily increased during this time, and there is no reason to think we have yet reached the maximum. Expenses have increased, but not out of proportion...
...following figures taken from the Graduate Treasurer's reports show the relation of subscriptions for University teams to the credit balance for the past five years: Balance. Subscriptions. 1900 $26,500.59 $6,931.71 1901 $15,990.02 $8,240.52 1902 $24,654.65 $5,716.66 1903 $23,601.69 $4,275.85 1904 $33,057.51 $5,013.58 - - Total...
President Eliot points out that, contrary to an opinion that exists in some quarters, the professional courses show an increase in the number of their students in the current year (1904-05) and that the School as a whole "has always been, is now, and is intended to be, a place for steady work and the most strenuous endeavor on the part of both its teachers and its students." That this is not an empty claim is indicated further on in the report by the fact-that the average working time for the four-years' course in mining and metallurgy...
...libraries of the university show an increase of 20,000 volumes over last year, bringing the total to about 3,90,000 books...