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Below is given a list of the preparatory schools which contributed the largest number of men to '97 and '96 S. at Yale. It will be seen that Andover leads the list with 45 men. Several men were prepared at two different schools. In this case they are counted for both schools. The most frequent combinations were Lawrenceville and St. Paul, Berkeley and Andover, and Cutler's and Andover. The list is as follows...
...telescope is the largest of its kind in the world. Its peculiar feature is the possession of two independent objectives, a "doublet," forming a rectilinear combination, which does away with distortion, and thus makes possible accurate charting of a large portion of the heavens...
...largest of any of the recent gifts to Harvard is that of Dr. Henry Willard Williams, who has given $25,000 as a special fund toward the maintenance of a Professorship in Ophthalmology in the Medical School. In 1891 Dr. Williams resigned this professorship which he had held for twenty years...
...next largest amount is $8333.33, the second installment of Mr. Frederick L. Ames' subscription of $25,000 for the expenses of the Arnold Arboretum. During the past year the library of the Arboretum has been very much enlarged. Professor Sargent has presented to it his library, containing about four thousand bound volumes and several thousand unbound pamphlets devoted to Botany, Dedrology, Forestry, Horticulture, Geography, and related subjects. In addition to this, Professor Sargent has received vouchers to the amount of $5453.17 for the recent purchases of books which have been made for the library. The Arboretum has also received from...
...also given $15,000 for the equipment of the department of Physics. Mr. Sidney A. Kent has announced his intention of fully equipping Kent Hall, which when completed will cost more than $225,000, and Mr. Yerkes has presented the university with what will be the largest telescope in the world...