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...They are both great games over there, but more people go to see the Association matches. In championship matches for the challenge cup I. have seen 15,000 people on the field. Ten thousand is an ordinary crowd. They only charge six-pence (12 cents) to see the game, and a shilling (your quarter) for the pavilion. Of course, here we would have to make it a shilling admission, and two for the pavilion. How many times do we play a week? Generally twice, on Saturday and Monday, and I can tell you, two good matches in a week...
...Base Ball Association is very prosperous. It proposes to give the thousand dollars which it has above the surplus allowed by the plan to the Boat Club. As has been said above, this gift is approved under condition...
...appointment of one of these to be in the hands of graduates. The Association most willingly adopted the suggestion of the alumni, and the result has been more satisfactory than even the most sanguine of its advocates had dared to hope. Not only did a representative audience of eighteen thousand people witness a most magnificent contest between our two universities, but also, that audience and the public press had nothing but words of praise for the game itself. Such an event could not but greatly conciliate the college faculties, and many even of our most staid New England parents forgot...
...same time we see clearly that the falling off of a thousand dollars in the subscriptions since the year before, has tended to leave a larger amount unpaid now than there would otherwise have been. Deplorable as this is it seems to show a belief among the students that they ought not encourage the expenditure of so much money...
...those occupied in teaching here to the creditable figure of 181. The present year gives every indication of being one of the most prosperous in every way that the University has seen, and the day is not far distant when the catalogue will show an enrollment of over two thousand students. The Price Greenleaf bequest to the college appropriates $12.000 annually to be distributed in scholarships ranging in sums from $150 to $250 a year; and unlike the ordinary college scholarships, will be given not only to students who have already proved their merit in the college, but also...