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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Wednesday's New York Post contains two columns by Walter Camp on the Harvard and Princeton elevens...
...that no men, not in gymnasium clothes, are allowed on the floor of the gymnasium. The purpose of this rule is to keep off from the floor, men who simply drop in to see the teams work, and the necessity of the rule is now apparent. For the past two or three winters the floor has been lined with men watching the eleven practicing dropping on the ball and pursuing their other training. Of course it is gratifying to see so much interest evinced in the work of the team, but when this interest takes the form of hindering...
...sometimes called, go back to the songs of the people. In fact these are their history. The "Nibelungen Leid" and "Gotterdammerung," the principal poems are based on popular songs. The "Nibelungen" contains thirty-eight adventures corresponding to cantos, arranged in 2000 stanzes or verses. Each verse is divided into two parts, the second part being one accent longer than the first...
...scene of the "Gotterdammerung" is laid on the coast of the North sea. This consists of thirty-two adventures of 1700 verses. It differs from the "Nibelungen" in the metre of the last verse in that each stanzas is increased by a single accent. The great peculiarity of the poem, however, is that it extends over three generations...
...College Education of Women contains many interesting facts and statistics concerning the work and growth of the Annex. So fast has been the growth that Fay House in now not large enough to accommodate the classes. The building contains a reception room, a lunch room, a small conversation room, two reading rooms (both together inadequate), a laboratory of botany, two small apartments for the librarian and secretary respectively and four lecture rooms. The laboratories of Physics, Chemistry and Zoology are in other buildings. The office of the secretary is already too small for the rapidly increasing business that is brought...