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...class book of the seniors of the Yale Sheffield Scientific School appeared last Saturday. The following facts are gathered from its pages. Of the ninety-three men who entered the freshman class seventy-four graduated. The average age of the men in the class is twenty-one years, three months and eleven days. The average height is five feet, nine and one-seventh inches, and the weight one hundred and fifty and one-half pounds. The average expenditure per year for each man has been $970. There are forty-two members in the class. Half the class smoke, thirty-four...
Yale, with her usual liking for gathering statistics, has compiled the following list, showing the relative preferences of fathers who have sent their sons to Yale this year. The first figures in each case refer to '91 and the second one, to '90, Sheffield Scientific School. Merchants, 39, 19 1-2 per cent.; 23, 25 per cent. General business, 28, 14 per cent.; 16, 18 per cent. Lawyers, 26, 13 per cent.; 4, 4 per cent. Manufacturers, 23, 11 1-2 per cent.; 17, 19 per cent. Mechanics, 17, 8 1-2; 8, 9 per cent. Farmers...
...annual statement of the Sheffield Scientific School for 1887-8 has just appeared. It is an interesting pamphlet of about sixty pages and shows clearly the progress of the school. The number of students has increased from 279 to 282, the gain being in the undergraduate department, the number of specials and post-graduates remaining about the same. The circular of the graduate department is more extended, showing a steady growth, and the list of laboratories, collections, etc., shows what means are placed at the disposal of students in chemistry, zoology and engineering. At the close of the volume...
...Sheffield freshmen at Yale have adopted a class cane which will cost...
...course of lectures styled the "Mechanics' Course," given under the auspices of the Sheffield Scientific School, though open to any member of the University, will be resumed this year by a lecture on "Science and Miracles," which is to be delivered next Tuesday by Professor Dubois. These lectures are twelve in number and will be delivered on Tuesdays and Fridays during February and March. The lecturers are for the most part members of the faculty, but several other gentlemen will speak this year. The subjects of lectures are topics of interest in science and politics...