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Professors lead in drawing books with about twenty-eight per cent. of the total number. Academic graduates are second with 22 per cent; theological students third with 12 per cent., and persons not connected with the college draw 14 per cent. Sheff. falls far below the average, only taking 4 1-2 per cent. More books were drawn in the first three months of the winter term than in any corresponding period...
...circulation of the Linonia and Brothers' librari 8 is not to be compiled by the librarian, but about 31,000 volumes have been drawn, of which members of the Academic Department took over 75 per cent. Thirty per cent, of the books in this library are novels...
Twenty-one per cent. of the Divinity School are Yale alumni; Amherst is second with 16 per cent.; Harvard and Williams are next with 8 per cent. Only one man is not a college graduate. The Yale graduates in the Department of Philosophy include 56 per cent. of the entire number...
...water rent would more than pay for supervision and repairs. The British Indian works yield 7 per cent. profit.- Stewart's Irrigation, p. 174; Parlia. Papers, 1886, XLIX...
...Stearns died in April. 1887, and was succeeded by Dr. William H. Payne of Michigan University. The college opened last month with an increase of 30 per cent over the attendance of any previous year in the college's history...