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...Yale preliminary catalogue for 1883, which is just out, shows the number of students in the various classes as follows: academic department-sensors, 151; juniors, 143; sophomores, 155; freshmen, 170; total, 619. Sheffield Scientific school-Post-graduates, 4; special students, not candidates for a degree, 3; seniors, 47; juniors, 74; freshmen, 84; total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 10/1/1883 | See Source »

Students are requested to leave their addresses at the post office so that their mail matter can be delivered promptly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 9/28/1883 | See Source »

...ball came tennis, which in the sixteenth century became very popular. In the fourteenth century was introduced a large air-ball, to be beaten around with the first. This soon developed into the foot-ball. From tennis originated cricket, which in America has taken the from of base-ball.-Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 9/28/1883 | See Source »

...highest sum spent for furnishing a room was $1,800. Fifty are booked for the law, twelve will study medicine, twenty-seven go into business, five will study theology, three will go into civil engineering, one will study surgery, and six will devote themselves to journalism. Seven will take post graduate courses at New Haven and two will enter the Theological Seminary. The relations of the class to the faculty have been about as good as possible under the circumstances, the president being voted for by the majority as the most popular professor, with Professor E. S. Dana a good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/20/1883 | See Source »

...family of Johns Hopkins that the great university endowed by their relative is not doing the work which he intended - of educating the masses of poor young men. 'The education,' they say, 'given is the highest - it is too high. It seems to educate further already well-educated post-graduates of other colleges. With forty-one professors and an income of $225,000 we should be educating a thousand young men instead of two hundred.' Precisely the same complaint might be made of one or two other important institutions richly endowed by large bequests for the express purpose of educating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEED OF AMERICAN COLLEGES. | 6/20/1883 | See Source »