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...readiness with which the football management offered to divide its surplus with them. The foot-ball men want $140 to get a ten-dollar cup for each man on the team and for the substitutes. The request is a modest enough one even if they did not have a cent for buying them. When, however, they have $280, half of which they volunteer to give to the crew, it is contemptibly mean for any one to question their right to what they ask. The excuse crew men offer for the position they have taken is that every cent that...
...addition to the regular record, is a long list of calculations based on the figures got from the records, some of which are extremely ingenious if not particularly valuable. One rather interesting fact is that of the whole number of graduates, 31 per cent, have become Methodist Episcopal ministers, and that Wesleyan has given to the world an aggregate of 8,540 years of Methodist preaching. Following the records is a bibliography of 150 pages, which sets forth every book or article written by Wesleyan alumni. The whole book is of about 700 pages, and has been prepared with such...
...School has increased in the number of its students 20 per cent. during the last year. The Story professorship was again filled after a vacancy of four years. The Harvard Law Association, also, gave $1100 to increase the amount of instruction in constitutional law during the year...
...measurements made by Dr. Sever, show that the physical development of the Yale freshmen is excellent. There is a marked absence of men who are under or over developed. There are 326 men in the College and Sheffield School, a considerable increase over last year. Only 17 per cent, of the freshmen use tobacco, while 25 per cent. of the Sheffield men smoke. The heaviest man in the class of '92 weighs 200 pounds, against 192 1-2 pounds in '91 last year. The lightest man weighs 86 1-2 pounds. The tallest...
Fifty-one per cent. of the class are below the average height, which is 5 feet 7 4-5 inches. The sons of merchants are most numerous, being 39 in number, the sons of lawyers come next with 35; then come in order the sons of manufacturers, clergymen, farmers, bankers and brokers, and last the sons of mechanics...