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...branch of work known as the Department of Self-help has just been started under the direction of Mr. Kitchel of the Greek Department. The object is to aid students in finding means of self-support while in College...
...requirements in the different branches of the service. This plan is sure to increase the value of many of the courses, as well as the attendance, for by it the men are given a more practical goal to work for than the advantages of general culture. With the same object in view, it is possible that the number of courses will be reduced, those of an impractical nature being omitted; and an effort will be made to make the popular courses, such as typewriting, shorthand and arithmetic, more interesting than they have been before...
...Graduate Hand-book for 1900, which has just been published, is devoted for the most part to the proceedings of the fifth annual convention of the Federation of Graduate Clubs. The object of the publication has changed within the last two years. "The primary purpose of the hand-book is no longer merely to present in a compact form certain information sought by advanced students...By the present plan, the Federation hopes to bring all graduate students more in touch with its work, and, perhaps, to contribute something towards the solution of the problems of higher standards of scholarship...
...scientific expedition is being formed at Yale to go West this summer. About twelve Yale instructors and students will take part in the expedition, which will leave late in August. The party will make the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona the main object of the trip, but will also visit the San Francisco mountains and the petrified forests of Arizona. Another Yale party is already on its way to the Canyon. The object of the expedition is mainly to study the geology of the Arizona regions and also to hunt for fossil remains...
...Department of Geology and Geography, Dr. Daly will give a new half course, Geology 112, on the subject of Oceanography. The object of the lectures will be to give a comprehensive view of what is known regarding the larger problems of the ocean. Geology 172 will again be offered, and will cover a somewhat broader field. The lectures on experimental and dynamic geology will be illustrated by experiments. Other courses which were omitted this year but will be offered during 1900-01, are Geology 271 and 11. Geology 72 and 21 are bracketed. In Half-course A1, Dr. Daly will...