Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upper stories will be devoted to cryptogamic researches. The completion of the interior and the arrangement of the specimens will probably take ten months, so that the rooms will not be open till next year. The proposed connection between the two museums will probably be made into laboratories for research in natural history inasmuch as there is great need for such accommodations at present...
Fifthly: Yale claims that under the foot-ball constitution, Yale and Harvard must play in New York this year, inasmuch as they were respectively first and second in the league last year. It is asserted that if Harvard refuses to play in New York, she breaks the constitution, and therefore forfeits the right to choose the ground. The answer to this is plain. Harvard was forced to break the constitution through no fault of her own. Since she is never to be allowed to play in New York, she must always break the constitution when she is second and Yale...
...conclusion is plain enough. Since Harvard only agreed to play in New York last year because she relied on Captain Beecher's agreement to consider the game as equivalent to one played in New Haven, therefore, as Harvard cannot play in New York this year, Yale's honor, if nothing else, demands that she should play in Cambridge...
...encourage the undergraduates. But it must be remembered that no incentive was offered for extra exertion, while slow cautious play was indulged in lest the game should result in the disability of some member of the team. In accidents Princeton appears to have surpassed her competitors this year; but she has been fortunate in having good men to take the place of those injured. Mowry, one of their best half-backs, a swift runner and a sure tackler, has been laid up on account of sickness for a fortnight. It is expected that he will be so far recovered...
...Chickering, of Amherst, has been appointed professor of rhetoric and English. Professor Chickering has spent many years upon these branches of study, having been an instructor for twelve years before he entered Amherst as assistant professor. He remained at Amherst for a few years, and then entered the "dictionary department" of the Century Publishing Company, remaining here only one year when he was called to his present position...