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...petition ends with a mention of the system pursued by several of the largest universities. Columbia, which confers its degrees directly upon the graduates of Barnard College, and the University of Cambridge, England, which admits the women of Girton and Newnham Colleges to the identical examinations of its own students, and confers very specific certificates of degree. In Oxford the same course is followed, while the University of London confers degrees upon women without restriction...
...year has opened with a much larger registration in all departments than ever before. This is especially the case in the Graduate Schools. The Law School has a total registration of 252, which makes it one of the largest in the country. The freshman class in the Medical School numbers 80, against a registration last year of 45. Of the 139 students in the School of Theology, 70 are new members, and 87 are college graduates...
...Stinnecke scholarship, which is awarded for excellence in Latin and Greek, and amounts to $1,500 annually, is the largest given by any American college...
Sunday evening witnessed the largest crowd in the chapel since Professor Drummond's visit. Of the three classes coming to the chapel, the students, the other members of the University, and the public, any one class would have filled the seating capacity...
...largest library in the world is at Paris. It contains 1,400,000 books, 175,000 manuscripts, 350,000 maps, and 150,000 coins...