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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...method of instruction in Greek at Johns Hopkins University is thus commented on in a late number of the N. Y. Post: "The rooms are of a good size, well lighted and handsomely furnished. The cocoa matting of the average college class room is replaced by Brussels carpets; and cane-bottomed chairs are substituted for hard wooden seats. All the works in the university on philology are collected together in this one building. The student then has everything at his elbow. In the seminary library there are one thousand volumes, and in Professor Gildersleeve's study at least two thousand...
...Yorker winning, and of course choosing the event which he is considered most likely to win. It is not yet settled as to the track on which the races will be run, but it will be at either the Polo Grounds or the track of the N. Y. A. C., with the former for choice...
...Grounds, the weather being perfect. The audience was rather slim, but interested; the fair sex following the fortumes of New York University as a rule, while the knowing ones were there to see "our city club scoop her in again." Six teams entered - New York, Bloom-field, Princeton, N. Y. University, Yale and Harvard, the rules being to play for an hour, unless one side made three goals before that time. Yale and Harvard were first drawn, and faced each other at 12 M. Yale played a surprisingly good game, and was only overcome by the better system...
...next game, N. Y. University vs. Bloomfield, was a poor exhibition of lacrossse, the collegians winning by 3 goals...
...Slocum, '83, of Brooklyn, N. Y., won the college lawn-tennis tournament at Yale last Thursday...