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...year by opening on last Friday morning a Bureau of Information. The rooms of the association in Holden Chapel have been made bright and comfortable and provided generously with all the current periodicals and New York, Boston and Chicago daily papers. Members of the association are present during the larger part of the day to give any information possible to the men just entering the University and to make the early days of their university life easy and comfortable...
...Quinquennial Catalogue will be issued on Commencement Day and will be much larger than any previously issued. The most interesting figures given in the summary of the catalogue are these: All degrees conferred since 1642, something over 22,000; number of individuals recorded on the roll of graduates of the University, 19,335; of these 9,141 are reported as deceased and 10,194 are supposed to be living; Bachelors of Arts, 13,264; of these 6,858 are reported as deceased and 6,406 are supposed to be living. The whole number of honorary degrees conferred...
...field. Too many men have gone to the Tree with friends, or for some other reason have failed to march in with their class and the "Wild ring about the Liberty Tree," which Longfellow mentioned in his Journal on Class Day, 1846, is in danger of being not much larger in the number of participants than it was 50 years ago. This tendency has greatly disappointed the alumni; and those of us who have been connected with the management of Class Days know how many queries there have been asking the reason for the small classes at the Tree...
...quite a different position and history, Washington and Lee, in Virginia, I find that, out of $600,000, $234,000 are invested in securities of the state of Virginia; that town and county bonds are represented by a few thousand dollars; and that railroads in the south represent the larger part of the balance. A college of a different environment and condition is Rochester University, New York. Of its $1,200,000, $335,000 are railroad bonds. [President Charles F. Thwing in June Forum...
Recitations will close Wednesday, and then examinations will begin. These will continue until June 18, when the larger part of the college, with the exception of course of the senior class, will go to their homes...