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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...establishment of the American School of Architecture at Rome has led to the consolidation of the two McKim Fellowships of $1,000 each at Columbia College into one of $2,000, with the condition attached that the winner shall remain two years abroad and shall spend ten months of this time in the school at Rome. Six months are to be actually spent in Rome itself, and the other four devoted to travel and study in Italy or Greece under the direction of the secretary of the school. This change has been made in accordance with the wishes...
...hurdle and the bicycle race, the winner of the preliminary heats and the second man in the fastest preliminary heat shall start in the final. (c) (These rules subject to revision). The 440 yds. dash shall be run in one heat if there are not more than ten starters, otherwise four men shall constitute a heat. However, if there are less than three starters in the last heat, the referee shall consider the heat a walkover and place the starters in the other preliminary heats. The first and second men in the heats shall run in the finals...
There will be two trial debates. At the first one, which will probably be held on Monday, April 8, the speakers who represented Harvard in the last Yale debate will be judges. They will choose the first ten best men, who will speak on Wednesday, April 10th, before a committee of judges made up of members of the Faculty. Three representatives and an alternate will be chosen...
...defeats, while the Faculty seek to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education. Their latest move has been a particular request to the corporation, leading to the appointment of a new professor to the chair of Rhetoric which has been vacant for ten years. The students show their interest, not only by a great increase in the number who take active part in the various debates, but by the heightened esteem in which the debates themselves are generally held...
...people.-(1) Cost of building ships one-third greater than in England: Codman, as above.-(b) They must be permanent: House Report, as above.- (c) They have already been unsuccessfully tried in U. S.-(d) They have failed in France.-(1) Shipbuilding not built up in ten years' trial.-(e) England's supremacy not due to subsidizing: D. A. Wells, as above.-(1) No payments made to sailing vessels.-(2) Compensations only for carrying mails, and for building according to admiralty requirements...