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...Since September last the bills of the Yale navy, to the amount of two thousand dollars, have been paid up, so that the race with Harvard can take place shortly after Commencement...
...There are ten thousand students in attendance at the Moslem University at Cairo...
...left us a debt of about twenty-six hundred dollars. Thirty-five hundred has been this year subscribed. Of this, all that has been yet paid in has gone, with one hundred dollars from other sources, to pay off the debt, which has been thereby reduced to about one thousand dollars, - an amount still sufficient to swallow up nearly all that is likely, as experience has shown, to be collected from the subscription-list. The crew will thus be, in a great measure, dependent, for the expenses of this year, upon outside resources, - boat-club theatricals, generosity of graduates, additional...
...Although the standard for entrance to Wellesley has been raised, the present Freshman class has double the size that the last had. Over three thousand volumes were added to the library last year...
...correspondent in everything he says, but the crew will find many valuable hints in the letter. His remarks on rowing-weights, we must say, with all due respect, are out of date. The rowing-weight used in his time was very different from the one in use now. A thousand strokes a day at the hydraulic machines used by our crew necessarily brings out the pluck and endurance of the candidates for the boat. Pulling at an iron weight attached to a strap was a different thing, and might well have the effect our correspondent fears. An extract from...