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...annual Catalogue has lately been issued, showing the total number of students in the university to be 2673, divided as follows: The college, 706; medical school, 682; law school, 312; graduate school, 172. There is an increasing number of students from Latin-American countries due, in part, to circulars of information regarding the university recently translated into Spanish and circulated in Central and South America and the West Indies...
This marked increase in interest and the present flourishing conditions of debating are due in part to the introduction of the "camp system", which had previously worked successfully at Yale, and partly to the number of new prizes and rewards. The new system is used at present by all but the Freshmen, and they are soon to adopt...
...that it seemed strange to call the attention of any Harvard man to the great figure of Phillips Brooks. In speaking of the man as a preacher, it is worthy of note that Bishop Brooks was disappointing to one who heard him for the first time. This dissatisfaction was due to the vagueness of what he said and the rapidity with which he talked. "When I am interesting," he said once, "I am vague, when I am definite, I am dull." When he came into the University the cry went up that the pulpit had lost its power. He quietly...
...conference to be held in Washington in February, 1900, for the consideration of problems connected with graduate work. The conference has been prompted, in the words of the invitation, "by a desire to secure in foreign universities, where it is not already given, such credit as is legitimately due to the advanced work done in our own universities of high standing, and to protect the dignity of our Doctor's degrees. . . . There is reason to believe that, among other things, the deliberations of such a conference as has been proposed will result, first in a greater uniformity of the conditions...
...following is a part of the official report of illness in the University during the year 1898-99. Compared with the previous year, there is a larger grand total, which is due to the increased miscellaneous diseases, especially during the months of December and January. There is, on the other hand, a decrease in two special directions, contagious diseases and injuries. The report say the latter is due undoubtedly to "more intelligent management of athletics." Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June Total Colds, etc., 0 64 179 215 232 123 133 106 96 5 1153 Typhoid...