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...accessions to Columbia since Christmas have raised the total number of students to 1536. Columbia now has the second largest number of students in the country...
...statuary can be found in its halls. The Senate House, dreaded by the incoming freshman, and the University Library, with its half million volumes, among them an original MSS on vellum of the four Gospels and the book of Acts of the Apostles, next meet one's attention. The largest, if not the finest college is Trinity, which claims to be the largest in Europe. Ex tending on both sides of the street it is entered through the fine King's Gateway, near which stands the statue of Henry VIII. Within is a large court or "quad," called Neville...
...only hall in all Cambridge, and has produced a large number of theological writers. Who does not know the college of Chaucer, called by him "Soler Hall at Cambridge," but now named Clare. This small college, which can boast of but one beautiful court, was once one of the largest in the town. Emanuel was built upon the site of a Dominican monastery, and in the strife between the King and the people became known and marked as a Puritan college. It is of this college, and its companion in the Puritan faith, Sidney Sussex, that Charles I said "They...
Harvard is the most cosmopolitan college on this continent. Almost every state in the Union is represented and many foreign countries We give below the states which send the largest number of students...
This is only in the college proper. If we take the University, the cosmopolitanism of Harvard would be still more clearly shown. As would be expected, Mass. sends by far the largest number. The eight states which send the largest numbers are, Mass. 543, N. Y. 149, Penn. 40, Ill. 30, Ohio...