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...largest sum earned by any one member last year through the bureau was $500, but this is unusually large; the average member, if he is capable, may reasonably expect to earn from $150 to $300. The Faculty members of the University have done much to help members by having their manuscripts typewritten there, and the undergraduates also have used the bureau to a considerable extent. The bureau is located at 18 Lawrence Hall...
College opened last Thursday with the largest registration in the history of Yale. The statistics show a slight increase in the number entering the Sheffield Scientific School, and a slight decrease in the Freshman class of the Academic Department...
...Observatory, through an anonymous gift of $20,000 received in 1902, has added to its equipment what is regarded as the largest efficient telescope in the world, a five-foot aperture reflecting instrument constructed by the English astronomer, the late A. A. Common. Professor E. C. Pickering conducted the negotiations for the purchase of the telescope during the summer, and preparations are now being made for packing and transferring it to Cambridge. The mirrors will be sent first for experimental purposes previous to setting up the whole instrument. An open space in the eastern part of the Observatory grounds near...
...year was that with Yale. On October 24, Yale submitted the question: "Resolved, That the history of trades-unionism in the United States for the past twenty years shows a general tendency detrimental to the best interests of the country." Sixty men tried for the University team, the largest number that has come out for a debate since 1900. The men finally selected were M.E. Weldy 3L., E.M. Rabenold '04, and T.H. Reed 3L., Rabenold was awarded the Coolidge Prize of $100 for the best work in the trials. F.Q. Morton '06, H.A. Hirshberg '06, and A.B. Weiler sL. were...
...debate was held in Woolsey Hall, New Haven, on December 4, before the largest audience which ever listened to an intercollegiate debate, and resulted in victory for Yale. Both sides met the question fairly and showed great power in suiting their own arguments closely to those of their opponents. Harvard lost mainly through delay in meeting the fundamental argument of Yale, although it was met as well as possible before the close of the debate...