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...number of students in each of the eleven branches to be taught in the Woman's College is as follows:- in Greek, 4; in Latin, 7; in English, 4; in German, 4; in French, 4; in Italian, and Spanish, 0; in Philosophy, 1; in Political Economy, 2; in History, 2; in Music, 1; in Mathematics (Solid Geometry and Plane Trigonometry), 1; (Analytic Geometry), 4; (in Differential Calculus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 9/25/1879 | See Source »

...Malvernian comes to us filled with reports of lawn tennis and cricket matches. English boys are evidently not losing their interest in field sports. The literary department of the Malvernian is small but good, and the appearance of the paper is exceedingly neat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 9/25/1879 | See Source »

...following are considered the best of the twenty-eight English amateurs who have offered to compete in this country. Ball, quarter-mile runner; George, one-mile and four-mile champion; Massey, of the London Athletic Club; Venn, the seven-mile walker; Allan, the short-distance runner; Warburton, a runner; Shaw, the hundred-yards runner; Strachan, of the London Athletic Club, the high-jumper and hurdle-jumper, and Squires, the winner of the thirty-miles walking, and sixty-miles "go-as-you-please" contests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 9/25/1879 | See Source »

...course is a steep embankment, and Wilmer could not stop himself in time to avoid injury. This accident is much to be regretted, as Wilmer will of course be kept off the cinder-path for the rest of the season, and will not be able to compete against the English amateur sprinters who will soon visit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 9/25/1879 | See Source »

...first place this victory will have a decided effect upon American college rowing. It has proved beyond further question the superiority of the Harvard stroke, and the worthlessness of the system of rowing in which Yale has persisted. The effect will be to make final the adoption of the English method of rowing in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RACE. | 9/25/1879 | See Source »