Word: summer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...figures of 1907-08. This follows a decrease of 62 in last year's figures from the year 1906-07. The figures for this year denote a very considerable decrease, however, when consideration is taken of the fact that there is noted an increase of 206 in the summer schools and a new school has been added to the list in the Graduate Business School. Apparently, the decline has been fairly uniform in most of the departments. The professional schools have suffered considerably, the Law School having 32 men less than last year. Two departments, the Bussey Institution...
...abroad testifies. In addition to serving on a number of commissions of education and on boards of trustees he has achieved distinction in the study of philosophy. His activities have not been confined to this country as he has studied and lectured in Germany, France, and England. Only last summer he lectured in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Christiania. While at Columbia President Butler has firmly opposed intercollegiate football, which was abolished there in 1906. President Butler was born in Elizabeth, N. J., April...
...official registration figures at Yale show that the total enrollment not including the summer school is 3,434, the largest in the history of the university and an increase of 128 over last year. The faculty has increased from 474 to 485. Among the departments the Law School shows the greatest increase, there being 434 students, 95 more than last year. The enrollment in the college is 1,273, a loss of 42 from last year...
...meeting of the classical conference held yesterday afternoon in Harvard 1, Professor D. G. Lyon h.'01 gave an interesting explanation of the explorations made last summer by the Harvard Expedition to Samaria, of which he was in charge. This city, the capital of northern Israel, was rebuilt with great splendor by Herod the Great, and it is the remains of his buildings that have been discovered. The mound which covers the ancient city is about five miles in circumference and covered with olive groves and wheat fields...
...Schiff has made provision for the resumption of the work, which will probably be in charge of Professor G. A. Reisner '89 next summer...