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...number are college men, while in the House the number is one hundred and sixty-four or a little over one half. Of these Harvard has the greater number of any one college, fourteen, nine from the college proper, and five from the Law School. Yale comes next with thirteen, ten from the college and three from the Law School. The other colleges are represented as follows: Michigan University sends ten, four from the academic department and six from the law school. Princeton, Centre and Jefferson (now Washington and Jefferson) have each seven representatives. The University of North Carolina...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Men in Congress. | 1/14/1890 | See Source »

During the past year the University of Pennsylvania eleven played thirteen games, winning seven and losing six; 200 points were made while their opponents scored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/16/1889 | See Source »

...faculty of Exeter Academy has been greatly increased during the past year and now numbers thirteen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/6/1889 | See Source »

...fifth of the community die of contagious diseases, but from these college men suffer very little. From small pox no intelligent community need suffer. A vaccination in early life, however, does not retain its virtue always, and if there are men in college who have not been vaccinated since thirteen or four-teen they had better be so now. Typhoid fever is the contagious disease most likely to make headway in a body of students. The danger would be most likely to come from an impure water supply. It is utterly impossible for a man to protect himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Conference Meeting. | 12/4/1889 | See Source »

...Williams college eleven has played twelve games this fall, nine exhibition and three championship. Of these Williams won one championship and tied one and won five exhibition games. She has made three hundred and four points to her opponents' two hundred and thirteen. A notice is posted in University stating that an examination will shortly be held by the civil service commission in Washington, or in any other large city where the board has an office, to select two clerks for the geological survey, at a salary of $900 each. Some knowledge of geology is required...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/4/1889 | See Source »

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