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...decision of the base ball management to offer season tickets at the low price of three dollars ought to induce every man to purchase a ticket. In former years the price was five dollars and it was only last year that the management tried the experiment of reducing the price. The consequent increase in the sale of season tickets was immense, but whether this caused an increase of the total receipts from tickets was doubtful. At all events the receipts for the year fell off greatly This year the nine ought to be better supported. The first thing that...
...event announced by the H. A. A. for the next winter meeting will offer a valuable opportunity for sprinters to learn to start before an audience. The race will be so short that the man who gets the best of the start will almost surely win. New men are apt to be nervous in starting and some men who run well when once under way are slow in getting off. These men will be especially benefited by the ten yard dash, and ought to enter in sufficient numbers to make an interesting race...
Gaze's Educational Excursions to Europe next summer offer special attractions to individuals or small parties visiting any part of Europe on longer or shorter tours. Send for information to Alfred Bunker, Boston (Highlands), Mass...
...Harvard university Bulletin for January 1890 contains extracts from the Corporation records, extracts from the Overseers' records, University notes and a list of accessions by the different college libraries. Among the records of the Corporation are to be noticed the following: the acceptance of the offer of Mr. Nathaniel C. Nash '84 to give the amount needed to complete the botanical sections of the University museum; the receipt of $5,000 as the final installment of Mr. Francis Bartlett's gift of $20,000 for Professor Cook's addition to the University museum; the reappointment of Dudley Allen Sargent...
...most directly to college affairs is "Athletics at Cornell." The writer is evidently a partisan of Cornell for he favors her at every point, but nevertheless he gives us a very clear idea of the origin and rise of athletics at this university; he would have done well to offer some prediction as to the position in athletics which Cornell will hold in the future for it can hardly fail to be a prominent one. "Prospects of the Yachting Season" and "Creedmoor and the National Guard" are interesting, and contain a good deal of very readable information and comment...