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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the 1901 drill squad it was decided to divide the class according io height into two companies A and B, the taller men constituting Company B and the shorter men Company A. The election of offices resulted as follows: Company A-Captain, B. Boss; First Lieutenant, H. W. Keene; Second Lieutenant, R. M. Brown; First Sergeant, W. A. Heilprin. Company B-Captain, P. E. Coyle; First Lieutenant, S. G. Ellis; Second Lieutenant, C. C. Brayton; First Sergeant, R. M. Brownell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drill Squad Election. | 5/6/1898 | See Source »

...meeting of the 1900 drill squad yesterday afternoon, it was decided to form two companies from the class. A division of the men was made according to height, the taller men constituting Company A and the shorter men Company B. The election of officers resulted as follows: Company A-Captain, R. W. Bliss; First Lieutenant, M. Churchill; Second Lieutenant, W. L. Shaw; First Sergeant, P. P. C ase. Company B-Captain, R. O. Dalton; First Lieutenant, R. J. Graves; Second Lieutenant, A. Hasbrouck; First Sergeant, H. J. Davenport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drill Squad Elections. | 5/5/1898 | See Source »

...Francis C. Barlow, Mrs. Calvin S. Brice, Mrs. H. Mortimer Brooks, Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, Mrs. James C. Cooley, Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin, Mrs. Fellows Davis, Mrs. Alexander Duer Irving, Mrs. Leonard Jacob, Mrs. Adolph Ladenburg, Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mrs. J. Hampden Robb, Mrs. Philip Sands, Mrs. William H. Taller, Mrs. T. M. Waterbury, Mrs. Jacob Wendell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PROSERPINA." | 4/22/1895 | See Source »

...last event was an exhibition between H. L. Newman '94 and T. H. Mastin Sp. '96. Newman was taller, heavier and had the longer reach He had very Little trouble in winning form Mastin, Who was very weak from his first fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The First Winter Meeting. | 3/13/1893 | See Source »

From the records of Yale College during the past eight years it is shown that the non-smokers were 20 per cent. taller than the smokers, 25 per cent. heavier, and had 66 per cent. more lung capacity. In the last graduating class at Amherst College the non-smokers have gained in weight 24 per cent. over the smokers; in height, 37 per cent., in chest girth, 42 per cent., and in lung capacity, eight and thirty-six hundreths cubic inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/24/1892 | See Source »

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