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...would have undoubtedly been the best in every way, for the objections that were made to the "weaker" college nines remaining in the league surely appertain to Columbia. As for the old league, it is in every way better apportioned than the new one, and the members - Amherst, Williams, Brown and Dartmouth - will enter for the championship well matched, each feeling that it has an excellent chance for championship honors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 4/5/1887 | See Source »

...officers of the meeting were: Referee, G. B. Morrison, '83; judges, C. H. Kip, '83, and A. H. Brown. Mr. E. A. Thompson, '87, officiated as time-keeper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third Winter Meeting. | 4/4/1887 | See Source »

...officers of the meeting were: Referee, Mr. G. B. Morrison, '83; judges, Messrs. C. A. Kip, '83, and A. H. Brown; referee of sparring, Dr. William Appleton; judges of sparring, Messrs. J. S. Fay, Jr., and J. P. Hawes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Ladies' Day. | 3/28/1887 | See Source »

...system of college elective studies was given its first start in this country in 1851, when Dr. Francis Wayland, president of Brown University, who had been making investigations abroad, published his "New College System...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/26/1887 | See Source »

...only reprints the information concerning those of 1,000 volumes or over, and these number 2,981. Forty seven of these have over 50,000 volumes; and among the forty-seven are the public libraries of Boston, Chicago and Cincinnati, and the libraries of Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Cornell and Brown universities. These forty-seven libraries aggregate 5.026,472 volumes; and the whole list of 5,338 libraries aggregates 20,622,076 volumes, or one volume to every three persons in the country. In round numbers, the United States has one library to every ten thousand of population, though in many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Libraries of the United States. | 3/24/1887 | See Source »