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Numerous improvements have been made at Harvard during the summer. Several of the buildings have been remodelled and an amphitheatre with a seating capacity of four thousand has been erected on Holmes' Field. - Princetonian...
...from it as a centre." Rev. E. E. Hale then spoke as follows: "In its pride over the completion of a quarter millenium, the college attempts an enlargement of its religious privileges. Nowhere have I witnessed a grander service than the daily morning chapel service heartily conducted by a thousand gentlemen. But as I look over this sea of faces, I ask myself, 'how shall I be brought into closer sympathy with these men?' It is absurd to talk of irreligion and atheism here; for a university is the thermometer of the community from which the students are recruited. There...
...commending the manager of the freshman nine, who by his diligence and care, has brought the nine out so well financially, as to have quite a surplus at the end of the season. In these times, when we hear so much about "debts of several hundred - or several thousand - dollars," left by treasurers and managers of various college societies and associations for their successors to pay, it is a pleasure to meet with such a thorough, conscientious manager as Mr. Woodbury. He has not only paid up all the expenses of the nine, but he has been enabled...
...last few years by the various athletic teams of Yale. Plans have been made for a new and elegant gymnasium, and a subscription list has been circulated among the alumni. It is estimated that the cost of the proposed building will be about one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. As only a few thousand dollars have as yet been subscribed, it will probably be two or three years before the new gymnasium will be erected. The Yale News gives the following plan of the new gymnasium...
...second could be neutralized by putting the posts pretty far apart, and also by judiciously setting them where they would offer the least inconvenience, and that to the smallest number. Even if a few people were bothered by it, that would surely be better than putting three thousand people to the torture for three hours, as was done in Monday's game...