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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...numerous legends regarding the production of the precious metals. But the conquest of Persia by Alexander, laying open the vast treasure houses of Susa, Persepolis and Ecbatana afforded something like a measure of the metallic wealth which had been amassed through many centuries. In that early time this wealth amounted to hundreds of millions of our money. This is the all important fact in the history of the precious metals down to the Macedonian conquest. That it should have reached into the hundreds of millions is a miracle, and it was to contemplate this phenomenon that this lecture goes back...
...just where he draws the line between the larger and smaller classes, but he gives us the striking fact that the courses most largely taken, which altogether involve about twice as much work as one student could perform in four years, comprise only one-eighth of the whole amount of instruction offered by Harvard College. The "other seven-eighths," he observes, "although indispensable for an institution with the resources and aims of Harvard College, are really provided at great cost, first to meet the wants of a comparatively small but precious minority, and secondly to meet the higher part...
...Chemistry, one course in descriptive Chemistry; Botany and Zoology, one half course in each; Geology, one elementary course and two kindred half courses, one in Physical Geography and the other in Meteorology. The President then shows that if the courses in this list are summed up they contain an amount of work at least twice as great as any undergraduate can perform in four years. The amount of instruction on the list may be roughly computed to be about one-eighth of the total amount of instruction offered by Harvard College; but this eighth meets the chief want...
Professor Peirce's Report for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences shows that the membership of the Faculty has increased by two, three members having left and five new ones having been added. The Dean calls attention to the fact that in courses intended primarily for undergraduates the amount of change from year to year is relatively small, while the list of more advanced courses is constantly undergoing important modifications...
State Treasurer Hodge of Connecticut on Tuesday paid to Louis Bristol of New Haven, for Yale University, $154,604.45, the amount of the recent award to Yale by the state Yale-Storrs commission; the injunction in the United States Circuit Court restricting the state treasurer from paying any of the money to Yale College being dissolved...