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Yale opened its season by trimming its Alumni, 38 to 28. Danny Endweiss's 124.97 points-first in the dive stands out as the best Eli achievement, while Captain John Good, Ed Gesner, and Paul Metcalf looked well, Sprinter Eric Perryman and backstroker Joe Burns were a bit disappointing...
...Fabrica," in the second edition, will be on view; the first, printed at Basel in 1543, is to be shown at the same time in the Print Room in Fogg. The Treasure Room, possesses, however, the earliest printings of Copernicus' revolutionary work on the movements of the planets, of Gesner's natural history, and of Agricola's De Re Metallica, and these will be brought out for the benefit of the public. One of Mercator's early atlases, will be included. From the seventeenth century, works by Galileo, Kepler, Napier, Pascal, and Newton have been chosen; and from the eighteenth...
...Eliot 3S.L.A., chairman; P. A. Anderson 2G., R. M. Geer 3G., J. C. Slater 3G., H. H. Chen 1G., L. B. Morgan 1G.B., K. C. Gesner 2T.S., Roland Smith 1G., Delmar Leighton 1G., Roger Wells 4G., E. D. Salmon 1G., T. W. Noon 1G.Ed...
...Gaston and Haskell defeated Goldberg and Cook, 6-4, 7-5; Ross and Heustis defeated Burns and Kelley by default; Farnham and Farnham defeated Garrison and Gordon by default; Stockwell and Perkins defeated Anderson and Cushing, 6-1, 3-6, 7-5; Duane and Ingraham defeated Gesner and Uchiyama, 6-3, 6-1; Banes and Smith defeated Cristy and Beach, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4; Harrington and Fincke defeated Pinkham and Howe by default; Manning and Bondi defeated Jordan and Angell, 6-1, 6-4 Whitehouse and Duncan defeated Davis and Duncan by default
...Gray. This is the most valuable collection of its kind in the United States, and is surpassed by none but that in the British Museum. It contains about eleven thousand autographs and in many cases the photographs or engravings of the botanists. The oldest autograph is that of Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist born in 1516. The date of the autograph is 1563. Among other names contained are those of Linnaeus, 1749, a great Swedish naturalist and the founder of the present methods of botanical classification, Joseph Tournefort and Augustus P. de Candolle, both famous botanists. The collection was begun...