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...that he need not hurry to the game in order to get a seat, while the confusion saved and the satisfaction given to everybody, must have repaid the management for their care and inconvenience in the sale of tickets. They have started a custom which future managements can well afford to keep up. The singing of the Glee Club, while the crowds were waiting for the elevens to appear and during the intermission between the halves, was also a novelty which seemed to find universal favor...
...freshman football team will play the Amherst Agricultural College eleven this afternoon on Jarvis field at three o'clock instead of 3.30 as announced on the cards. The result of this game will afford some opportunity of estimating the team's chances with the Yale freshmen. All ninety-six men should turn out and give their team the hearty support it deserves. Ninety-six will line up as follows...
...remedy this difficulty that Dr. Sargent instituted last year his class in gymnastics, - to afford a means for regular exercise varied and interesting as well as beneficial. The result has been very satisfactory: he has arranged a series of exercises very different from the monotonous chest weights and Indian Clubs, he conducts them himself and holds them at a late hour in the afternoon when it is convenient for nearly all men. Considering, therefore, how well the class has answered the purpose we would recommend students who are not training for any special object to join...
...Supreme Court made a bequest of $23 to be used in giving a series of four lectures on religious subjects, one lecture to be given each year. Justice Dudley was a man much interested in matters of theology and his desire in founding this course of lectures was to afford a means for broad and comprehensive treatment of what seemed to him important theological questions. The lectures were given regularly from 1753 to 1857 when the fund becoming low the course was suspended till four years...
...stock company composed of the students and alumni of Princeton, are erecting a building, the Princeton Inn, to afford suitable accommodation to the alumni and guests of the University...