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...careful look at the catalogues of the last two years will show the number of men in each class occupying rooms in the college buildings this year as compared to the number of last year. The number of undergraduates holding rooms this year is 499 while last year it was 531. These figures do not include rooms held by specials. Twenty specials occupied college rooms last year to 42 this year. In the graduate departments there has been a gain, 115 men in college rooms this year to 87 last year. By the following statistics one can see where...
...swelling the total of those occupied in teaching here to the creditable figure of 181. The present year gives every indication of being one of the most prosperous in every way that the University has seen, and the day is not far distant when the catalogue will show an enrollment of over two thousand students. The Price Greenleaf bequest to the college appropriates $12.000 annually to be distributed in scholarships ranging in sums from $150 to $250 a year; and unlike the ordinary college scholarships, will be given not only to students who have already proved their merit...
Then, too, the presence of many men in the contests awakens enthusiasm, not only among the athletic men, but throughout the college. If you have any enthusiasm, therefore, show it by entering these contests; and you will certainly kindle that of many another...
...publish in another column a report of a lecture on "Contemporaneous History," which seems to show that the faculty has at last adopted our suggestions of last year on this subject. We hope this lecture may be the first of a series. A lecture on the present political condition of Germany or England would be very acceptable to the college, especially in view of the present strained relations between the European powers...
...Study of History in American Colleges and Universities" has recently been published by the Burean of Education, at Washington. The main object of the publication is to trace the origin of the study of history at the various centers of learning in this country and to show the importance of the political and narrative history of the United States to the college faculties. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and University of Michigan have been taken as the representative colleges for men in the United States. The following is an extract from the chapter on "History at Harvard University...