Word: year
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Club of New York has asked last year's football and baseball teams and the University crew and this year's eleven to be its guests in New York next Saturday night. To insure acceptances by many athletes who could not otherwise attend, the invitation includes the trip to New York and back and hotel accommodations while in New York...
...present year is characterized at the University of Pennsylvania by extraordinary activity in the direction of building. The new museums have been completed and occupied. They form a most striking addition, from an architectural point of view, to the group of university buildings, and offer abundant room for the great collections of Babylonian and Egyptian antiquities which it has hitherto bee impossible even to unpack. The biological department has completed its "Vivarium," and has filled it with all manner of beasts and creeping things, so that it has become one of the chief attractions to visitors. The law school...
...registration in the university for the present academic year is about the same as last year. Considerable interest has been felt in the new courses of study opened this year in banking, commerce and diplomacy. Other new courses are offered in debating, one being very similar to what was so long known at Harvard as "English 6." These courses are under the direction of Dr. Alden of the English department, who was for a time connected with the English department at Harvard...
There is an unusual amount of interest in debating this year. The debate with Cornell will probably be held at Ithaca in February, that with the University of Michigan in this city in March. The subject for the latter debate is, "Resolved, That the formation of trusts should be opposed by legislation." The Debating Union is making plans for a mock political convention to usher in the campaign of 1900. The Union, which is only two years old and which was largely founded by former members of the Harvard Union, is entering upon a most successful year...
...Faculty Club has just moved into a new building directly opposite the campus, where lunch rooms and other conveniences give hope that they may some time have as comfortable club rooms as the undergraduates. Two German plays are to be given in the city during the present academic year, under the auspices and for the benefit of the German department. They are given through the courtesy of Mr. Conried of the German theatre in New York, and are attracting no little attention. The first play to be presented is Minna von Barnhelm; the second will be from a modern playwright...