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...amount subscribed on this list (which will be found in the Brevity column) by all classes, except the Sophomores, is below the share which it is customary to allot to the class in proportion to their burdens. Of the whole amount required the Seniors are assessed twelve per cent., the Juniors and Sophomores twenty-five per cent., and the Freshmen thirty-eight per cent. According to the estimate of the treasurer it will be necessary to have about thirty-two hundred dollars subscribed. The Sophomores have already subscribed their portion, the Seniors are about forty-two dollars behind, the Juniors...
...report of the Treasurer shows a real falling off in the rate of income this year, as compared with last, of about 28/100 of one per cent; and, until the value of money and the rental value of real estate shall increase, a still further falling off is to be expected. The amount of expenditure for 1877 was $224,575.07, of which $158,406.90 came from undergraduates. The total invested funds of the College amount...
...debt of the Association due Harvard College amounted, Sept. 27, 1877, to $43,238.41. Interest on the same, 7 per cent, is $3,026.69 for the year, which divided into the nine academic months gives $336.30 as the monthly assessment against $361.91 for the preceding year...
...Derby has been examining the Freshmen's eyes. Twenty-five per cent of the men have myopia...
...discredit to the institution. Only five have elected Integral Calculus; the course in analytic mechanics is not taken at all; and no one of the other courses has more than three or four men in it. A department which gives advanced instruction to less than three per cent of each class would seem to be of doubtful use to a university. Mathematics has always been thought to give a fine mental training; but, if this training be accessible to so few men, all except the elementary courses might as well be given up, and some subject...