Word: various
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recent meeting of the University Corporation little was done besides discussing the proposed action of the city of New Haven in trying to tax various portions of the college property, raising the amount paid yearly from $50,000 to $489.000. Should this be done, a serious blow would be inflicted on Yale, and it is felt that the college does enough good to the town to deserve better treatment. Letters from other institutions of learning show that little or no taxation is universal elsewhere. A test case will be made soon before the courts...
...President's report for 1895-96 to the Board of Overseers, with the reports of the various departments and the Treasurer of the University was published yesterday. After mentioning the deaths and services to the University of Martin Brimmer, Josiah Dwight Whitney, Francis James Child, Daniel Denison Slade, and Eliot Folger Rogers, the President directs his attention to the Graduate School. Since 1871, when the Graduate School was founded, the degrees of Ph. D. and S. D. have been conferred upon graduates of other universities only after a residence at Harvard of two and three years respectively. On March...
...Atlantic Monthly for February is published a study by President Eliot on American liquor laws. In 1893 about fifty men were writing in co-operation on various sociological topics and undertook a detailed study of the liquor problem. The work was divided between four committees. The legislative committee was composed of President Eliot, James C. Carter of the Board of Overseers and President Seth Low of Columbia...
...Valentine '98 has been appointed manager and, although the schedule of games has not been finally decided upon, he has already made arrangements with the various school and local nines in or near Boston...
...condition of the ice for skating at the various ponds and rivers in the vicinity is as follows: Jamaica Pond, fair; Chandler and Strong ponds a Oak Square, fair; Spy Pond, good; Lower Mystic at West Medford, good; Charles River at Waltham, fair; Cow Pond at Spring St., good; Dedham Pond at Dedham, good...