Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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HARVARD ATHLETICS.- "Their Management and Expense" is fully treated in a special article to be found in Friday's (college issue) of the New York Evening Post. Similar articles from Yale, Cornell, and Brown, appear in the same number. For sale at Thurston...
...Yale catalogue for 1889-90 came out last Wednesday. The number of students in the university is 1477 divided into the following classes: Graduate courses, 81; Yale college, 736; Sheffield Scientific School, 343; Art School, 42; Divinity School, 136; Medical School, 54: Law School, 111. These figures show an increase in the number of students in every department of the university except the Art School. The total increase over last year is 112. In 1888-89 there was an increase of 120 over the previous year...
...Hastings a few days ago a water tank, situated over number 43 overflowed, leaked through the ceiling and spoiled a great part of the furniture...
...last number of the Nation there appeared a letter, signed by "G. W. A.," on the subject of intercollegiate athletics. The writer points out the benefits and the evils, connected with and resultant from intercollegiate contests, and concludes that "these contests are an evil to be abolished...
...Drinking. From personal observation the writer knows that the habit of intemperate drinking has been greatly increased in at least one college by the fact that a large number of students accompany the teams to other colleges. It is considered "the thing" to drink then if at no other time...