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...others. Another table shows that the constituency of the College has increased within the last ten years; the proportionate representation from New England having decreased and that from the Middle and Western States having increased, chiefly owing to the increase from New York, which now supplies one eighth of the whole number of students. Almost two thousand dollars a year have been added to the funds for the support of meritorious poor students...
...graduates of some department of Harvard who are continuing their studies in the same or a different course. That is to say, out of the 1,278 students in the University, 105, or nearly one twelfth, have come from some other college, and 162 others, rather more than an eighth, have already received degrees from Harvard. Had we included the summer courses, we should have found five new colleges represented, and fourteen more foster-sons, so to speak, of our Alma Mater, besides several gentlemen who are professors in still other colleges that are not represented by graduates...
...regardless of the earnest advice of his friends to drop it. In the sixth innings the Brunonians made two runs by the repeated errors of Thatcher, who was playing in a strange position and was doubtless agitated by the unearthly Providential howls from the grand stand. In the eighth, Tyng went to third base, a change by no means productive of victory. Safe hits by Tower and Nash gave us a run, but the last innings came to an untimely end with a fine catch by Dow, when we had a man on third, and needed...
...been so disregarded; to advise those who have rushed at lightning speed through the pages of Alden and of Fawcett to pass some of their leisure moments in going over the same path once more, with less expedition and more care; to recommend to their attention the seventh and eighth courses of elective philosophy; nor to suggest to the students who have not yet taken up these subjects the propriety of studying them with attention...
...first business of the evening session was a proposition of Yale to buoy the course in the next regatta by lines of flagged buoys, at intervals of an eighth of a mile. Amendment offered by Harvard to row the next race with coxswains was carried without discussion, and the discussion came in on the original motion as amended. Mr. Gunster of Williams spoke strongly in favor of coxswains, while Mr. Cook of Yale opposed them as too sudden an innovation. Harvard urged the proposition, which was finally assented to by a vote of 6 to 4, - Yeas, Columbia, Harvard, Trinity...