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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accordance with the usual custom the election of the Yale Lit. board took place a few days ago. After considerable preliminary discussion, a vote was taken which resulted in the election of Messrs. Crosby, Sage, Colton, and Hurd, and in a tie between Messrs. Opdyke and Beckford. After another ballot with a like result the matter was left pending for settlement till some future...
...March number of the Magazine of American History contains several articles of a broader interest than usual. The editor, Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, contributes the second paper of her series on the significance and present condition of "Historic Homes and Landmarks." The numerous points of interest about Bowling Green in New York City are well described and their connection with the history of the city is told in a charming manner. The article is illustrated with many pictures, some of the places as they are now and others copied from old prints, as they have been in the past. "America...
...raised. A few weeks ago it was announced that a cup had been offered by Harvard men to be competed for by the different schools belonging to a proposed interscholastic athletic association. One athletic meeting is to be held a year, and the games are to be of the usual nature of the annual intercollegiate contest...
...boat there are twenty-one candidates; the material is better than it has been for several years, but it is too early to say anything definite concerning the composition of the crew. The challenge received from the Harvard freshmen has been accepted, and the race will be rowed as usual at New London. The 'varsity crew will not row the Harvard 'varsity crew this year, but will enter a triangular three-mile race with Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. W. G. Peet will again coach the crews. It is interesting to note that during his connection with college...
...Notes" some facts are given about the recent growth of the Law School taken from the reports of President Eliot and Dean Langdell. The past year has been one of great prosperity, the attendance being now over 225, an increase of 20 per cent. The number closes with the usual extracts from recent cases and several book reviews...