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...largest of the graduate schools, lists 1400, 11 more than last year; the Business School has jumped from 918 to 973. Medical School remains unchanged in size, with 511 students, as does the Dental School, with 160. The graduate School of Engineering is up from...
...first, a technicolor sound picture with Edwin C. Hill as commentator, follows the manufacture of steel from the mines to the finished product. Depicted in the second film are some of the constructive operations of the Tennessee Calley Authority. The last picture shows work on the Grand Coulee Dam, largest in the United States, in which the process of solidifying the soil by freezing was successfully used...
This figure makes it the third largest library in the country, exceeded in size only by the Library of Congress in Washington and the New York Public Library with whom it runs a close race for second place in the magnitude contest. In Europe two national libraries are larger, the British Museum in London and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris...
...those who like statistics the following figures should be of interest. The largest collection in the Library is that on American History which contains about 125,000 volumes. Economics has 73,000, American literature 30,000, English literature 85,000, French History 50,000 and English History 40,000. The Angling collection has 11,500 books...
...Sept. 14 (24), 1638, John Harvard died at Charlestown, leaving half his estate and all his books to the College. As this was by far the largest gift yet received, the College was named Harvard College by order of the General Court...