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...realized the importance of vital statistics, which the United States did not seriously consider until the last census. On the records then obtained, however incomplete, we may base a comparison of the populations of Europe and the United States. Europe, which comprises only one-fifteenth of the total land area of the world, supports one-fourth of its population. At present the rate of increase of population in the United States is nearly twice as large as that of Europe, but the two are gradually approximating. He then went on to show that the heavy influx of immigrants into...
...relay swimming race on Saturday afternoon in the Dunster tank. Yale got the better start and this lead was slowly increased throughout the race, the final man winning by a large margin. The tank is 43 feet long, and each man swam four lengths. Time, two minutes seven and one-fourth seconds...
...accessions to the University Library during the year are placed at 24,238, of which more than half were received at Gore Hall and about one-fourth at the Law School. The number of volumes added to Gore Hall is less than in the two previous years, but exceeds the average of the ten years preceding (10,731) by about 3,000 volumes. The total number of volumes received by the library in the past three years is only a little less than the total of the previous five years...
...Class Album, copies of which will be on exhibition today in the window of the CRIMSON office, is by far the most inclusive yet published, and the most satisfactory in every way. The general plan of the old Portfolio has been followed but the Album is at least one-fourth larger, as it contains records of all the important student societies, giving lists of the '98 members, and, moreover, has complete athletic records of the 'Varsity teams for the four college years of the class, and those of the '98 Freshman teams. Nine buildings have been added, including practically...
There are 6000 students at the University of Berlin, one-fourth of whom are Americans...