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...Harvard, Professor Bryce naturally recognizes as the leading American university. The largest staff of professors, instructors, etc., is that of Harvard with 62 professors, instructors and lecturers in the collegiate department. [In this respect Prof. Bryce is mistaken. According to the Catalogue for 1888-89, Harvard College has 95 professors, instructors and lecturers.] Columbia comes second with 50; Johns Hopkins, 49; University of Michigan, 47; Yale, 46; Princeton, 39. The salaries paid to professors at American universities and colleges are very small when compared to the general wealth of the country and the cost of living. The highest are those...
...good fellowship. Eighty-nine has made a good record in college of which she may well be proud, and she has never been charged with lack of class patriotism. The dinner a year ago was a proof of the loyalty of her members. Her junior dinner was the largest one ever held by any class. There is no reason why the senior dinner should not be still larger. Let every man sign and help to make the occasion a success...
...concert promises to be successful in every way, as all the clubs have been doing very good work. The audience will probably be the largest that has ever attended a Glee Club concert in Cambridge, as all the seats in the house have been sold, including those hitherto reserved for members of the clubs...
...catalogue at Yale shows a large increase in the graduate department there. The Theological School presents the largest gain, with 133 students to 117 last year. The Law School is second, with 106, a gain of 12. The junior class in the Medical School numbers twice as many men as that class did last year, the entire department showing a gain of 11. The department of Philosophy and the Arts numbers 79 showing an increase...
Barnes Hall, the new Christian Association building at Cornell, is now almost completed. Though not the largest, it is certainly the handsomest on the campus...