Word: two
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...two reasons unusual efforts must be made this year to produce a winning team. In the first place the old Mott Haven cup, which has been won by Harvard eight times out of fourteen, comes to her for good, and is replaced by a new one. It will be difficult for Harvard to show as good a record in the years to come as in those just past, and for this reason it is urgent that the names of her team should be the first inscribed upon the new cup. Furthermore our failure to win in football puts an added...
...will probably be two weeks before the Catalogue...
...this in the rarity of others. The most valuable collection of rare books ever given to library is that of Charles Sumner, who left all his books, in themselves a library, to the college. Many of his books are of interest on account of their former owners, two or three having belonged to Louis XIV, one to Milton, and one to Samuel Johnson, besides Bunyan's Bible and Lord Byron's poems of Ossian. Others are interesting on account of their editions several belonging to the original editions of the fifteenth century. Among the rarest is a book of Aquinas...
...Cornell Register for 1889-90 appeared last week. The faculty list shows forty-eight full professors, aided by forty-nine instructors and assistants, and thirty-one non resident lecturers. Thirty-two preachers of various denominations, including many of the most widely known clay in the country, conducted the services last year...
...turned to any part of the heavens. The main building, situated at the east end of the tower, is 43x27, and 25 feet high. The roof is flat and is reached by a stair case which leads also to the tower. The building contains one large and two small rooms for a library and other uses, a photographic room, and apartments for clocks and minor instruments. The whole structure is substantially made of brick and stone and is not only well adapted to its purposes but is well proportioned and handsome...