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This great growth came during the presidency of James Carnahan. Not only were the number of students increased under his regime but the number of professors and buildings grew, and the general policy was broadened. In the 31 years of his administration, 1,677 students were admitted to the first degree of arts, the annual average being 54. Of these 73 became presidents or professors in colleges or other seminaries of learning, eight became senators of the United States, 26 members of the House of Representatives, four members of the President's Cabinet; and a large number became eminent...
Athletics at Princeton were organized in 1858. Baseball and football were both introduced in that year, and track in 1873. Football was first played between clubs and associations but grew slowly until 1869, when a team of 25 men was beaten by Rutgers, six goals to four. In 1872, they challenged Yale, Columbia and Rutgers, but the first two declined to play and Rutgers was beaten. The first intercollegiate football convention met in New York in 1873 at which Yale, Princeton and Rutgers were represented. This meeting reduced the number of players on each team from 25 to 20. Rugby...
...protected by far-reaching mazes of barbed wire. Still farther back was a repetition of this first reserve set, not so complete in detail, but still ready for any emergency. And the same was true even farther back. From a region handicapped by the lack of transportation facilities, it grew to a district interwoven with miniature railway lines. There was not a part of the lines that was not in direct touch with the supply bases in the rear. And then there were the endless columns of motor trucks, guns, troops and more trucks. This branch of the French automobile...
...Holy Cross grew stronger and played better in each succeeding period. In the third it made its first down and held the ball in midfield when the period ended. In the fourth period Holy Cross-tried line plays unsuccessfully and Higgins, who substituted at quarterback for Twitchell, tried a forward pass, which was intercepted by Rutt of the Tigers...
...University Library has recently received from D. B. Fearing '82 a large collection of books on angling and fishing. Starting with only a scrapbook on trout and trout and trout-fishing, the collection grew to some 12,000 volumes, including treatise on all sorts of fishing, and even whaling. The most valuable single volume is a first edition of Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angle," copies of which have sold for more than $6,000. The library is also the most complete in the world in official documents of all countries on fishing. Mr. Fearing himself describes this collection...