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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard has lost the game, but not till after a desperate struggle. Twenty-five thousand people saw the Yale eleven win the championship at Hampden Park this afternoon...
...paper will be sold for five cents. Ten thousand copies will be issued. The papers will be on sale after the game in Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, New Haven, New York, and many other cities, and on the trains returning from Springfield to Boston and New Haven...
...American Republican College League, which was organized at Ann Arbor last year, now numbers seventy-two college clubs, and ten thousand members. The Harvard Republican Club furnishes about six hundred members. The League aims to stimulate discussions of economic questions, and to promote the principals of the Republican Party in the colleges. The local college clubs of several states are united into departments, fourteen of which constitute the League. Mr. Shirley E. Johnson '95, is a member of the executive committee of the League, and is also department organizer for Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. The purpose of the League...
...students still enjoy the privilege of using the library of Harvard College, but their own smaller collection is far from being neglected. Additions are constantly being made to it by private subscription or otherwise, and the number of volumes is now above six thousand, while in the fall of 1892 it was but little over five thousand. This collection is primarily intended for handy reference; but it has been more used than formerly, and more money has been expended on it than in any previous year...
...Natural History at Harvard. This position he accepted in July, 1842, and retained till his death in 1888. His great interest here was in the maintenance and increasing of the herbarium. In 1864 he presented the college with his own valuable collection, containing at the time over two hundred thousand specimens; and in his will he left to the herbarium the proceeds of all his copyrights. Many of the students are doubtless familiar with some of Dr. Gray's works, but few are aware of the wide field covered by his numerous publications, both in independent volumes and in contributions...