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Attention is called to the report of the Dean of the College on the extraordinarily low death rate among the students of the College. In 1895-96, four died out of 1772; in 1896-97, four out of 1754; in 1897-98, four out of 1819; and in 1898-99, three out of 1851. In concluding, the President remarks: "These facts tend to show that college students are in reality a picked body of youth physically, as well as mentally and morally...
...rate of interest on funds invested together as a whole was 4.59 per cent. Repeated deficits in the account called University, College, Scientific School and Library, used for improvements in the public buildings, have reduced the fund from $197,000 in 1869, to $24,000. The total state of the property of the University on July...
...Professor Ashley ends by saying: "If the grants of Price Greenleaf Aid were raised in amount and lessened in number; if pains were taken to make them known in every part of the country; and examinations were held in every state of the Union; it is at any rate possible that the competition would be more keen and fruitful than at present. Examination is an evil but a necessary one; and it seems to me that in this connexion, as in others, the University may find itself led to make more use of them, and to treat them more seriously...
Professor Edward C. Pickering's recently issued report of the Astronomical Observatory for the year ending September 30, 1899, states that, owing to the continued fall in the rate of interest in recent years, the Observatory is in urgent need of additional endowment. A decrease of one per cent. represents a loss in income of $10,000 a year. Thus in 1892 the Observatory received $53,000 income, but in 1898 only $46,000. In the words of the report: "Every few days questions are solved by means of the photographs, which without them must wait years for an equally...
...municipality, in the police and fire protection furnished; in the sewer, street lighting, and clean street improvements; but contributes nothing to their support. The necessity of including the College property in the expense of maintaining these municipal works, they urge calls for an outlay that materially increases the tax rate of the city...