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...Price Greenleaf Aid" for the current year, the only form of undergraduate scholarship which is granted in advance. The assignment was made by the President and Dean of the College upon the written recommendation of the teachers under whom the applicant was then studying in one of the largest New England academies, and was made on precisely the same basis as all other assignments to boys in the same and other schools, namely, indigence and good promise...
This is the largest contribution to education that has been made during the college year, which with the sum pledged by the trustees of the college makes one of the most remarkable of recent gifts. Dr. Ayres has shown great wisdom in imposing no restrictions upon the gift which will be disposed of to the greatest good of the university...
...Cobden club, the largest free trade club of England, has offered a medal to that undergraduate of Yale who shall write the best thesis on one of the following subjects. which were selected by Professors Sumner, Farnum and Hadley of Yale: 1, "The history of Silver since 1878;" 2, "Employer's Liability;" 3, "The Doctrine of 'Virtual' Monopoly;" 4, "International Industrial Exhibitions...
...Nation, in its "Correspondence" column, publishes a letter protesting against the indifference to the study of pedagogy, shown at all the universities in this country, and at Harvard most notably because that is the largest and most progressive of the colleges...
...following list shows the comparative support which Yale and other colleges give the graduate and professional schools of Yale. From this table it appears that Yale supplies the largest number of the men in all the departments except that of Theology where Amherst sends the most...