Word: dwight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There has been a steady growth in the number of students during the four years that President Dwight has been connected with the college. Since 1886 the total enrollment has increased a little more than 24 per cent. The changes in each department during the last four years are shown in the following table. The graduate students are given separately, and are not enumerated in the several departments...
...seen from the above table there has been a numerical increase of 279 during the presidency of Dr. Dwight...
...convention of college presidents has been held in New Haven for the past two days. President Dwight of Yale presides and the general object of the convention is a discussion of branches of education taught in the colleges. The convention will discuss ways by which a better feeling may be established among the students of the different colleges in place of the rivalry that now exists in consequence of the competition in athletics. The subject of college athletics itself is one of the most important under discussion. The conference may result in the formation of an association of the presidents...
...Beta Kappa society offers two prizes of $3,000 each "for the best general essays on the progress of science and literature respectively; such essays to embrace a philosophical discussion of the development in the past and the outlook for the future." The judges are to be Presidents Dwight of Yale; Eliot of Harvard; Angel of the University of Michigan; Gilman of Johns Hopkins; Adams of Cornell; Northrop of the University of Minnesota; and Bishop Potter of New York...
...proposed to start a school of music at Yale. The plan adopted proposes a new department with the requisite corps of instructors, apparatus, and a building not inferior to any of the great conservatories in Germany. President Dwight is heartily in favor of the plan...