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...Princeton Library has been enlarged during the past year by 25,777 volumes...
...Harvard was defeated by Andover by the score of 11 to 0, while Yale lost to the same team by the score of 5 to 0. Now, however, little significance can be placed on these figures owing to the rapid development of both teams during the past two weeks...
...Carroll D. Wright delivered last night his last lecture in the series on "Wage Statistics," his special subject being "Real Wages in the Past Half Century." In Friday's talk the speaker had considered the statistics of real wages from the stand point of prices; in last evening's address he approached the subject from the point of "cost of living" and of the purchasing power of money...
...third lecture, yesterday afternoon, Hon. Carroll D. Wright combined his third and fourth subjects in order that he might in his three remaining evenings devote more time to an exposition of the course of real wages in the past fifty years. The subject of tonight's talk will be "Money Wages as Shown by Statistics in the Past Half Century." The course of real wages will be treated tomorrow and Monday night. Mr. Wright spoke yesterday afternoon especially on "The Yale of the Various Collections of Wages Statistics." He said in part...
...chief development in the presentation of statistics of wages has occurred within the past twenty years. Formerly the time and wages of the individual laborers was ascertained without any accompanying record of the number of men and women receiving particular wages. The work of Dr. Bodio in compiling Italian statistics of labor twelve years ago, though considered valuable at that time, is now entirely discredited on account of his incorrect method of classification. The great development in the treatment of wages statistics has come from this side of the water. Entering upon a field new and unexplored, the American statistician...