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...addition to the regular record, is a long list of calculations based on the figures got from the records, some of which are extremely ingenious if not particularly valuable. One rather interesting fact is that of the whole number of graduates, 31 per cent, have become Methodist Episcopal ministers, and that Wesleyan has given to the world an aggregate of 8,540 years of Methodist preaching. Following the records is a bibliography of 150 pages, which sets forth every book or article written by Wesleyan alumni. The whole book is of about 700 pages, and has been prepared with such...
...Princeton is very good. The candidates began training last Monday in the gymnasium, and although a very large number did not present themselves, the material is very promising. In Mercer Hall a good substitute has been found for the cage, which was destroyed last year. Although Mercer Hall is rather small, it is much better than the old cage in the gymnasium, and as it is out of the question to rebuild the cage this winter, Mercer Hall will have to suffice. The hall has been turned into an excellent handball court, and is plenty large enough to permit battery...
Candidates for the Exeter nine begin practice next week. The prospects for a good nine are rather poor...
Yale men are talking rather dubiously in regard to their chances for winning the baseball pennant again in the spring. The famous battery without which the nine could have done but little during the past three years, has been broken up by the graduation of Dann, and it is said that Stagg is unwilling to play again. These losses taken together with Harvard's increased chances on account of the removal of certain restrictions, make the New Haven men talk as if the loss of the pennant by Yale next spring was by no means improbable. Captain Noyes will have...
...work in drawing up a bill providing for the establishment of a "National Hall of Records," in which the archives of the United States can be carefully kept and preserved. At present the archives are scattered more or less over the United States and are kept in a rather slipshod manner. To remedy this, the association is bending all its efforts...