Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Directors of the Harvard Dining Association met the President and Dr. Wolcott, to confer with them about the uses of the Dining Hall next year. Nothing has been more apparent this winter than the unsatisfactory arragement of the general tables, as there has averaged at them two and three quarter men per seat. This is on the face of it most unsatisfactory. There are now 1125 members of the association, of which number 597 are at the 17 general tables, while the waiting list numbers over...
...college, and there were 538 applicants for admission on the waiting list. Boys are admitted between the ages of six and ten years, and they must leave the college at eighteen years of age. The average age of those admitted during the year 1893 was eight and a quarter years and of those dismissed sixteen years, showing an average of seven and three-quarters years of maintenance and education for each pupil. Mr. Girard, in his will, says, "Those scholars...
...Quarterly Calendar" of the University of Chicago, which has just been issued, presents some very interesting figures. During the last quarter, 846 students were enrolled, an increase of seventy-three over the attendance of last fall. Of this number, however, but 296 are undergraduates. The graduate department contains 286 students, and the Divinity School 168. The remaining 96 are unclassified. The area from which these men are drawn is very large. Thirty-eight states are represented, and thirteen foreign countries. Illinois sends far the largest number, 332; New York comes next with a representation of 46. The total number...
...experimental practice for lectures on theory, the character of the equipment of the University has, necessarily, changed also. The University is accumulating a great stock of mechanical apparatus, and this can be used without detriment throughout the year; yet the vacations of the University are such that, for a quarter of the year, no use would ordinarily be made of the apparatus. This would mean a clear waste of opportunity...
...HOWE, Sec.'VARSITY GLEE AND MANDOLIN CLUBS.- Men who are to take part in the entertainment for the benefit of the unemployed tonight, must be at Union Hall (Temple street entrance) at quarter of eight...