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...case containing the more interesting cryptogamia. This has been arranged in part and proves attractive to all visitors. A few weeks ago a graduate of the University, who resides in one of our eastern cities, presented to the Botanical Department for present use, the very generous sum of ten thousand dollars. Of this amount, one quarter will be used by the Herbarium for the completion of its series of scientific publications, one quarter by the Botanic Garden, and the remaining half by the Botanical Museum in the completion of some of the cases which have been so much needed...
...first session of the International Athletic Congress occurred at the Sorbonne, Paris, last Saturday afternoon. Baron de Courcel, who presided, outlined the purposes of the congress and stated that he hoped the delegates would endeavor to establish international athletic championships. Nearly three thousand persons were present, among them being Professor Sloane of Princeton...
...publication of the statistics of the senior class at Yale brings out a note-worthy fact. The average expenses for the course are stated as follows: For the freshman year, nine hundred and sixty-one dollars; for the sophomore, one thousand and ninety-nine; for the junior, twelve hundred and thirteen; and for the senior, twelve hundred and fifty-five. This in turn gives and average of eleven hundred and thirty-two dollars for each year...
...once arises how this compares with the average expenses at Harvard. To this question, no satisfactory answer can be secured, but some significant facts are available. An examination of the reports of the class secretaries of former years shows that the number of men who spent less than a thousand a year is nearly twice as large as the number who spent more than that amount, and that the number who spent over two thousand is small. President Eliot, moreover, says that in his judgment there is not one man in ten here whose father can, without exaggeration, be called...
...Austrian March, Zach. 2. Overture, "Freischutz," Weber. 3. Waltz, "Thousand and One Nights," Strauss. 4. Overture, "Tabasco," Chadwick. 5. Danse Macabre, Saint-Saens. 6. Ballet Music, "Boabdil:" (a) Prelude; (b) Malaguena;" Moszkowski. 7. Suite, "Peer Gynt:" (a) Aase's Death;" (b) In the Halls of the King of the Dovre Mountains. The Imps are chasing Peer Gynt; Grieg. 8. Wotan's Farewell and Fire-charm, from "Die Walkure," Wagner. 9. Overture, "Poet and Peasant," Suppe. 10. Selection, "The Knickerbockers," De Koven. 11. Espana, Waldtenfel. 12. Persian March, Strauss...