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...District of Columbia and the territory of New Mexico were each represented in the school of all sciences by one student. Of the whole number, thirty-five had received their first degree in arts from this university; from the same source, nine the degree of Master of Arts, fifteen the degree of bachelor of theology and three the degree of bachelor of laws. Thirty-nine came from other colleges of liberal arts. A little more than one-half of the whole number were allowed to pursue their studies in other institutions or elsewhere in absentia. The report of the treasurer...
...Gyninasium, a new set of requisitions for admission was recognized, and a new element was introduced into the Universities. The Prussian Realschule of the first rank, as compared with the Gymnasium, entirely dispenses with Greek in its course of study reduces the time devoted to Latin by nearly one-half, introduces English, gives greater attention to German, doubles the time devoted to French, more than doubles that given to Physical and Natural Sciences, and increases that allotted to Mathematics by nearly one half...
...them entirely. The trouble is largely caused by the baseball men. The crews succeed each other in regular order and so only occupy a limited number of weights at a time; but the nines come up from the cage at the busiest time, while the crews are using one-half, and appropriate all that remains. The remedy should be, that crews and nines should all follow in regular order and never use more than the set of weights on one side. This would be no great hardship to them as they could easily schedule their weight exercise so that...
...race has been arranged between Myers, the champion runner, and Frank P. Murray, the champion walker. Myers will attempt to run threequarters of a mile while Murray walks one-half mile...
...further investigation of the scholarship of the present senior class, as compared with that in the past, discloses the fact that the discrepancy between the provisional and final list is very large, almost one-half, and the number of assigned parts this year bear about the same proportion to the number in the class that was shown last year, but '83 and '84 both outranked previous classes by at least one-third. This year's class, however, excels all previous ones in the number of men averaging above 80 per cent by almost one-third. [Advertiser...