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...relative size of Harvard and Yale and their development during the past year are contained in the following table of sectional representation. The country is divided into four sections: northeastern, comprising New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania; central, comprising Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin; western, comprising all states west of the Mississippi; and southern, comprising all states south of Pennsylvania and east of the Mississippi. Foreign countries make up a fifth division. The table shows the number of graduates and undergraduates now at Harvard and Yale from each section, the increase in numbers over last year, Harvard...
...each class in their tutor's room; afterwards all the students came together in Commons Hall or the Library; and later an apartment in the old Harvard Hall was used as a chapel. In 1744, Holden Chapel was erected. The building was entered by the door at the western end and the seats were ranged one above the other from the middle aisle to the side walls. Soon after 1766 a room on the lower story of the new Harvard Hall was taken for devotional exercises. In 1775 the academic buildings were occupied as barracks by the American troops...
...hope to meet the increasing need by receiving increased endowments is natural, and in view of the immense sums recently given to new Western colleges, one wonders why the oldest is by comparison overlooked, but is there not a possible source of income, in the increase of students fees which has not been explored? Everyone knows that the fees paid by a student only meet a fraction of the cost of his tuition, but is it known whether the parents of our students are able and willing to bear a larger proportion of this cost? There are colleges where...
Cornell expects to have track meets this spring with Columbia, Syracuse, Princeton and Williams and two western universities...
...many interesting forms. From the evidence obtained from the hauls, the conclusion was reached that there is little animal life at a considerable distance from land, at great depths, and away from the ocean currents. On the way to Tahiti, Mr. Agassiz spent a few days in examining the western atolls of the Paumotus, where he paid special attention to coral formations...