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...comfort of gentlemen who wish to take ladies to the game without subjecting them to the rather uncertain condition of the ordinary specials. Only seven hundred and fifty tickets will be sold and each holder of a ticket will be sure of a seat for this is the exact seating capacity of the train. No smoking will be allowed on the four rear cars, and strict order will be maintained as on any regular passenger train. The train will leave at 9 o'clock from the side track at Front street by the Cambridge end of the Harvard Bridge...
Ninety-seven plays Exeter at 3.15 this afternoon. The teams will probably line up as follows, though the exact make-up of the Exeter team could not be obtained last night...
...reputation for dryness and lack of life which many college men give the classics. Such performances show that the old life was not so far separated as might be from our own new life. The particular play in question will be given as nearly as possible in exact imitation of its original setting; this will make it of great value in an educational way. There are many difficulties in the way of this enterprise, but we heartily wish the promoters the best of success...
...development. The date for the presentation has been practically settled as the nineteenth of April, the anniversary of the Concord Fight; for the Latin plays, in the days of their popularity, were reserved for festival occasions; and it is the aim of the Latin department to make as exact a reproduction of the original as possible. With this in view, the twenty-second of February had been selected; but it was found that Sanders Theatre was to be occupied on that date, and this caused postponement...
Statistics have been obtained relative to the exact membership of all departments of Yale University, except the art school. The academic department has 1088; scientific, 599; divinity school, 113; medical, 77; law 222; graduate courses, 89. Last year's catalogue gave the total membership as 1969. The total membership this year, exclusive of the art school, is 2188, a total gain...