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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton which will accommodate 76 students is now in rapid process of completion. It is to be a four-story building of Bull's Island stone with trimmings of limestone. The entrance which is to be on the east side will have one main door in the centre with smaller ones on each side of it. Special attention will be paid to the decoration of this entrance where directly over the main door will be carved the words, "Brown Hall." The date of completion of the building will be carved to the left of this in a circle of stone...
...receipts of the Athletic association for the year were some $200 less than in 1887 88. This resulted from smaller attendance at the winter meetings. The actual expenses for the past year, including bills payable, were something less than in 1887 83. The expenses each year exceeded the receipts, in 1887-88 (when the year began with a balance of over $300) about $300, during the last year, about $450 which is the present debt of the Association. The outlay for sending teams to athletic contests was much less than in 1887-88, but on the other hand many needed...
...been expended, so that the total expenses for the year amounted to $7753.12. The total expenses in 1887-88 were $7624.63. But the receipts in that year exclusive of surplus, were $9938.49, $4700.29 more than in 1888-89. The decrease in receipts in 1888-89 was due mainly to smaller attendance at the games. To instance the most striking case, the receipts from the two Yale games played in Cambridge in 1887-88 were $6109.56. From the two played here in 1888-89, $2621.35. The management also lowered the price of season tickets in 1888-89, to $2.50. The price...
...then referred to his own class of fifty-three members of whom 10 per cent. used intoxicating liquors, a much smaller proportion than the average class of today. None acquired the habit after leaving college, but those who had already formed the habit in college soon fell into confirmed drunkenness. It is during youth then, between 17 and 25, that a man's habits are formed. At that time he often has great confidence in himself that he will not transgress the limit which he calls soberness, but gradually he becomes more and more entangled until he reaches the border...
...Harvard and Massachusetts so that it will probably be done by the last of October. The structure including the entire distance between the two buildings will contain three entrances, two for pedestrians and one for carriages, while on each side of the carriage entrance and between that and the smaller entrances there will be a fountain, one for the people and the other for horses. The style of the whole work is Euglish of the seventeenth century, the bricks being laid in the "Flemish bond" to correspond with the main part of Harvard Hall. The centre posts will...