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...thorough training in medicine. Dr. Christian had already established an excellent record of work in the Boston hospitals. He is an unusually young man for the position of head of the Medical School. Born in Lynchburg, Va., in 1876, he entered Randolph Macon at the age of fifteen, being graduated in 1895 with the degrees of A.B. and A.M. For five years he studied at Johns Hopkins and pursued graduate studies at the Harvard Medical School for three more years, at the end of which he received the degree of Master of Arts for pathological studies carried...
Looking back over the number of games in the schedules of the past fifteen years we find two distinct climaxes. The first was in 1893-94 in the case of football and baseball, the two major sports which have caused the trouble. The greatest number of games a University football team has ever played was thirteen in 1893 and in the spring of the following year the baseball schedule was the longest on record, containing thirty-three games. As these figures have gradually decreased the schedules of the minor sports have increased, until the climax was reached last year when...
...schedules for 1908-09 show some interesting changes. They have not all been approved as yet but they are being drawn up on the following basis. A schedule of twenty-three games is being prepared for the baseball team as opposed to twenty-seven last year, a reduction of fifteen per cent. The basketball schedule was cut in half by reducing the number from sixteen to eight, while the hockey team is scheduled for ten games as opposed to thirteen last year. The football schedule contained ten games last fall, the same as the previous year. The schedule...
...Hall of feeding each "transient" boarder a week! This amount is of course ridiculous. Evidently the cause of the high price of board is not the "transient" system. Even if one granted that the "transients" should each have paid $1 per week more, this would have reduced merely by fifteen cents the $5.96 that the 800 men were paying...
...Fifteen scrub hockey teams have been formed to compete in the series of games for the cups offered by the hockey management. The series will begin on Monday and all the games in the first round must be played on that day, unless both managers consent to a postponement. The managers must arrange the place and decide upon the officials for the game. The winning teams in the first round play on Tuesday and the victors on that day play on Wednesday. The final game will be played Thursday...