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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thousand, four hundred volumes and 6,700 pamphlets were added to the Yale library last year. The largest contribution ever made to the library was a recent bequest of $15,000 from Mrs. Azariah Eldridge...
...Medical Faculty calls attention to the diminiation of the size of the entering class. This falling off in numbers had been expected at the beginning of the last academic year when the new four years' course of instruction went into effect, but the entering class was the largest on record, so that the falling off in the numbers of this year's class was discouraging but easily to be accounted for by the prevailing financial depression...
...taken of the first twenty-five graduates of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. It was found that eight are consulting engineers, with their own offices; seven are superintendents and assistants in large plants, and one has charge of all repair work and special designing in the largest locomotive works in the country. Three manage concerns which they own entirely or in part, two are superintendents of gas improvement companies, three have responsible railroad posititions, and the last is a naval constructor, working on important government contracts. Investigation of college classes recently graduated at Pennsylvania shows that...
...fall. Of this number, however, but 296 are undergraduates. The graduate department contains 286 students, and the Divinity School 168. The remaining 96 are unclassified. The area from which these men are drawn is very large. Thirty-eight states are represented, and thirteen foreign countries. Illinois sends far the largest number, 332; New York comes next with a representation of 46. The total number of courses offered in the last quarter...
...Geological History of Harbors," by Prof. N. S. Shaler has just been published by the Government Printing Office in Washington. This is the largest single treatise on the subject which has yet been written...