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...University of Berlin has seven thousand two hundred and eighty-six students matriculated this year. Of this number 632 are foreigners and 6654 are Germans. It is estimated that during the past year the number of students in attendance at the German universities has more than doubled...
...bowling alleys, store rooms, and heating apparatus will be placed. The second floor which is reached by a broad stairway commencing near the entrance contains lockers, a director's room and quarters for the crew, nine and eleven. The gymnasium hall occupies the top floor; this contains over one thousand square feet of floor space and is lighted directly from the roof which is made almost entirely of glass. The hall is be equipped with the most approved gymnastic apparatus of every description. Also a running track of unusual width will encircle the hall...
...perceived the fallacy of the argument from percents. He cannot see how Yale may, with a smaller number to start with, gain more proportionately and at the same time gain less in real numbers. Let us suppose that we have two cities-one with a population of ten thousand and the other with five hundred thousand. The former makes again of one hundred per cent. in a given time, while the latter only gains four per cent. The writer of the communication thinks that because the small town is making a greater proportional growth it is actually out-stripping...
...Bellville Avenue rink, Newark, N. J. It is sent as a special invitation to Harvard men. The following events are open to all amateurs and will be governed by A. A. U. rules: 880 yards run, novice, scratch, and seven handicap events, viz. fifty yards, two hundred yards, one thousand yards, and two mile runs, two hundred and twenty yards hurdle race (2 feet 6 inch hurdles) mile walk, and running high jump. Handicapping by official handicapper of A. A. U. Gold medal to first and silver medal to second in each event. Prizes will be on exhibition...
...meeting of the Yale corporation on Thursday it was fornally voted to establish a department of music in the university, with Gustavus J. Stoeckel, for many years Yale's instructor of music, at its head. A fund of nearly three hundred thousand dollars has been placed at the disposal of the corporation, with which to erect a suitable building and provide for the employment of several instructors...