Word: wesleyans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Attendance at recitations is optional at Cornell, Michigan and Johns Hopkins. At Amherst and Wesleyan nineteenths of the recitations must be attended. At Yale eighteen cuts are allowed sophomores and freshmen and twenty-four to seniors and juniors. At Dartmouth twenty-five cuts are allowed and at Williams thirty...
...total receipts of this year-exclusive of the surplus-will be about $3745 less than last year. This falling off is due mainly to the fact that there was no game with Yale. Then, too, the Wesleyan game, and the Princeton game, played at Princeton, did not bring in as much as the games last year...
...college presidents in the United States, Yale, Ohio, Wesleyan University and Oberlin, each graduated eight; Harvard, Union, Princeton, Amherst, Washington and Jefferson, and Wesleyan, each six; Dartmouth, Brown, and Hameden-Sidney, each five; Michigan, Virginai, and De Pauw Universities, each four; Bowdoin, Dickinson, Rochester, Bethany and Pennsylvania colleges, each three. Nearly one-half of the number of colleges are non-sectarian. Of the denominational colleges 41 are Methodist Episcopal, 36 Baptist, 24 Presbyterian, 14 Congregational, 9 Christian, 8 Lutheran and 7 Episcopalian. Forty-three of the presidents were educated at the college over which they preside. One hundred...
...participation in the recent Washington's Birthday scrape at Wesleyan, six students were suspended for the rest of the year, and eleven until May 1st. No action was taken in Hubbard's case...
...committee of the Wesleyan faculty appointed to investigate the bomb throwing last Friday night have ascertained the following facts which tend to show that the accidents were caused by a series of mistakes and were not intentional as has previously been thought. A member of the freshmen class telegraphed to his father in New York to procure for him half a dozen bombs for the purpose of celebrating Washington's birthday. A messenger was sent to procure the bombs, and through a mistake was sent to 20 Park Place instead of 9, as had been intended. The intention...