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...indoor track which was constructed last fall underneath the grand stand on Franklin Field has proved as great a success as was expected and at present there are over a hundred track team candidates training regularly upon it-a larger number than has ever before appeared until much later in the season. The Intercollegiate Relay Meet, to which more than sixty colleges and as many schools have been invited, will take place on Saturday, April 24. The preliminary arrangements have been completed, except the grouping of the colleges, universities and schools. There will be two races to determine the college...
...hoped that a larger number of Freshmen would begin training for the 1900 nine than appeared last night in the Trophy Room. Harvard is looking forward to a successful baseball season this spring in which the Freshman nine will have to play an important part. To develop a winning nine the coaches will need the active aid of every man in the class who can play baseball at all; and it is very desirable that all candidates should begin training at once. The examinations need not prevent men from coming out, for the indoor work will be light and short...
...game of hockey is rapidly becoming popular among some of the larger universities. There are already organized teams at Brown, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Cornell, and the Yale team has already played a number of games with local teams in New Haven. At Princeton the team spent a part of the Christmas recess in training on the ponds about the town. In Philadelphia also the unusually cold weather before Christmas was favorable to the development of an interest in the game. The game has become so popular and so general that an intercollegiate league is talked...
...among American institutions of education is to be maintained. As the report points out the total of gifts and bequests in the last three years was something above half a million, while "during the same period at least five American universities, all situated outside of New England, received much larger additions to their endowments." The enormous single gifts to Columbia and the youthful but rich University of Chicago throw the benefactions to Harvard into insignificance. In the recent gift of a million dollars to Columbia that institution received almost twice as much at a single time as all Harvard...
...embarrassed many departments of the University which depend upon the income of permanent funds. During the year 1895 96 the amount of gifts and bequests to the University was $243,791.05. "During the same period at least five American universities, all situated outside of New England, received much larger additions to their endowments. If the primacy of Harvard University among American institutions of education is to be maintained, it must not be surpassed by any other in material resources. The Corporation could use the income of additional endowment to the amount of $10,000,000.00 for the satisfaction of none...