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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...receipts of the Yale Foot Ball association during the past season were $8,900 and the expenses $4,750. The profits will be divided between the Yale navy and the field corporation...
During the past year the Observatory has suffered a severe loss in the death of one of its oldest friends, the last survivor of those who took an earnest part in its establishment. The active aid rendered by Mr. J. T. Bowditch in every attempt to extend the work of the Observatory has done much to bring it to its present condition...
...Observatory instruments were in active use during the past year; the east equatorial instrument has been remodeled, and supplied with some additional equipments. All this work was under the direction of Professor Rogers, as also the reduction of the observations made with the meridian circle instrument. The new twelve inch horizontal telescope was completed in season to measure the light of all stars brighter than the fourteenth magnitude. It is now being used by Mr. G. E. Hale in an investigation of the solar spectrum. By the continued aid of Mrs. Draper, with that of the Boyden fund, an expedition...
...first subject treated under "Topics of the Day" is the freshman football teams. The writer shows fairly conclusively that our past freshman victories are no omens of university success. The other subject treated under this head is the "Growth of Harvard and Yale," and the writer concludes his article by saying that if the west continues to prosper as it has done hitherto, and if Harvard continues to rely on New England, Yale will grow with the west, and Harvard will fall back to the pace of New England...
...Griffing were nominated. Griffing was elected, getting eleven votes out of twenty. For vice president, Mr. C. P. Blaney was unanimously elected. For treasurer and secretary, Mr. George P. Costigan was re-elected unanimously. Mr. Dodge read a report for the vice-president, stating that in the past half year the Union has held seven meetings, elected eleven new members, and had at each debate from ten to twenty speakers. The treasurer made a report to the effect that there was a surplus of $38.52 in the treasury. After the transaction of this business the Union tendered the retiring officers...