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...will of the late Julius Hellgarten, in case his son dies without issue before his twenty-eighth year, Yale, Harvard, Williams, and Cornell, together with several other institutions are to receive one-twelfth each...
...succeeded Dr. Maclean as the college historian. No graduate of Princeton before 1812 is still living. Of the graduates between 1812 and 1820 forty-four are living. The total number of Princeton graduates is 5,439, and of these 3,000 are living. One fifth of the whole number have been clergymen, one-twelfth physicians and only one-eighteenth have entered public life. The mortality has been greatest among the politicians and least among the clergy. A hundred and eighty-nine have become presidents or professors in colleges - no fewer than thirty-two of whom have taken service with their...
...note accurately the worth of daily work. But an instructor's estimate of men, not marks, would be the fairer method. Two examinations - one upon entrance, one for a degree - would obviate the difficulties of a continuous struggle for marks; if this change be too radical, let rank depend upon daily work. And the names of those whom the Faculty wished to honor could be printed on "rank-lists," not arranged in the order of one-twelfth of a per cent, but alphabetically. Then we might hear less about "leading" the class, and more about men who have clear ideas...