Word: various
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Museum were exchanges with the Stockholm and British Museums and gifts from the Smithsonian Institute. The Hume collection of Indian birds selected for the Museum by the British Museum reached Cambridge in excellent condition, and proved by far the most valuable acquisition of the year. The condition of the various c?????????????ections continue to improve, and many empty places have been filled. The arrangements of the Palaeontological Exhibition, however, is now at a standstill, owing to a lack of funds. The collection of fossils is very valuable, and it seems a great pity that it should not be open...
...Collegian contains a valuable schedule of the records made in athletics at the various colleges at their meetings held during the autumn...
...bound volumes added to the University Library during the year, 10,885 were added to Gore Hall. 4027 to the Divinity School, 677 to the Law School and the rest scattered amongst the various departments. These accessions are the largest on record, and surpass the number of volumes added during the academic year 1886-87 by about 4,500 volumes. The present extent of the University Library is 343,318 bound volumes, and 276,682 pamphlets...
...Princetonian, in an editorial, speaks of the benefits which might be derived from a series of intercollegiate concerts by the various college glee clubs...
...athletic men during the decade ending in 1878 was 2.65 on a scale of 4. During the next ten years it rose to 2.69 for 1227 men. The record of 101 athletic students during the first decade was 2.55. The averages of the members of the various university teams were as follows: Crew, first decade, 2.56, second decade, 2.52. Nine, first decade, 2.59; second decade, 2.40. Football eleven, first decade, 2.51; second decade, 2.68. The average of the track athletes during the past five years has been 2.68. It will be seen by these figures that the averages...