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...Harvard men. The article on this subject in Saturday's CRIMSON showed clearly to what this growth was due, namely, the vigorous, progressive administration, which has not been baffled by the serious limitations of space, apparatus and general funds, but has pushed steadily on, making at every moment the largest possible use of what material was available, and ready always with plans for future development which awaited only the money necessary for carrying them...
...University of Paris has the largest attendance of any college in the world...
...faculty now numbers 119 professors and instructors, which gives an instructor to every ten students. The register of students is 1187, a gain of four over last year. Of this number 189 are seniors, 189 juniors, 197 sophomores, 272 freshmen, and 336 special students. The senior class is the largest in the history of the school. The Lowell School of Design is also increasing and now numbers 61 students. The alumni of the Institute number...
...Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania which has just appeared, is the largest ever issued, containing 421 pages of matter. It gives the total registration of the university as 2632 students, 1925 of whom are from Pennsylvania alone, and 94 from foreign countries. The curricula of all the professional schools has been increased and strengthened. One of the most important changes made is that regulating the requirements for admission to the college. Henceforth candidates for the freshman class will be admitted upon examination only, except in certain specified cases, upon the diplomas of public high schools...
...miles of Boston. The large schools of Boston proper do much to swell the the number, although the smaller suburban schools also send good delegations. Twenty-five states of the Union are represented in the remaining membership of the class. After Massachusetts, the seven states sending the largest number of men are: New York, 63; Illinois, 19; Ohio, 17; Pennsylvania, 12: Maine, 11; Missouri, 11; New Jersey, 9. Japan sends one representative. Nearly all the men live in Cambridge during term time; but 46 men live in Boston and vicinity, going to and from Cambridge every morning and night...