Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last, 447. Of these 86 are professors, 3 associate professors, 37 assistant professore, 15 lectures, 1 tutor, 142 instructors, 114 assistants, 5 preachers, 14 curators and library officers, and 30 proctors and other officers. The total registration of students in all Departments of the University is 3866, a gain of 192 over last year. Of this number 1819 are members of the College proper, 410 of the Scientific School, 287 of the Graduate School, 40 of the Divinity School, 548 of the Law School, 588 of the Medical School, 130 of the Dental School, 33 of the Veterinary School...
...Assistant Professor F. B. Williams; a new scholarship, the Edward Wigglesworth, has been founded in the Medical School; and Dr. John Collins Warren has retired from the Faculty of the Veterinary School. The report of the College Library gives the total number of bound volumes at 355, 600, a gain of 11, 600 over
Yale's victory over Princeton in the debate of Friday evening makes it evident that Harvard must gain the decision in the debate next May or drop to third place. Yale's defeat by Princeton a year ago and Harvard's victory, left the question of supremacy a doubtful one, but by her double success this year Yale has undeniably taken first place. For Harvard to be forced into the tail position after her past triumphs would be a comedown unpleasant to consider, and therefore the men selected in Friday's trial from whom the final team...
...University Debating Club has everything in its favor. First, the men who have formed it will not fail to see that it is firmly established; second, the best debaters in college by coming into closer contact with one another will gain mutual benefit; third, a central organization is calculated to encourage the best form of rivalry and to place a higher standard on debating, and last, by setting a higher standard membership in the club will grow in general esteem...
...allowed to speak twelve minutes from either side of the question and at the close of the debate a prize of $75 is awarded to the best speaker in the academic department. The reason for choosing five men is that by constant debating among themselves each man will gain greater experience, and will use every effort to obtain a final position on the team...