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...Yale seniors have elected the following class officers: Class orator, Orlando Isbel, of New Haven: class poet, Fred Palmer Solley, of Orange, N. J.; statistician, F. A. Verplank, of Norwich, Conn...
...with practical situations has shown the need of the study of statistical science as a theory, giving one thereby the ability to use the facts which he has discovered. However the word theory misleads the public. It would be better to banish its use in connection this science. The statistician should have the power to foresee the analysis which facts stimulate. He should comprehend the complete report before he makes up the details. The best way in way in which this object can be obtained is through scientific study and training. The teaching in colleges should embrace the theory...
...been arrested and had paid fines during the year. They were not known by name, but by number. They filed into the dining hall in the usual lockstep used in the penitentiaries. Such toasts as "Cops," "Nippers," "Bail," "Jugs," "Bars," "Beak," "Fines," etc., were responded to. The statistician of the occasion found that the city was $500 richer for the guests having been residents of Yale College. The misdemeanors for which the guests had been fined were stealing signs, building bonfires and singing hilarious songs, - Globe...
...careful statistician reports that there are in American 1801 institutions devoted to higher education. Attending those are 163,570 male and 30,587 female students. In 1880, 154,375 of our 227,710 school teachers were women...
...senior class at Yale met Monday and chose J. R. Sheffield, orator; W. McCormick, poet; and W. S. Burns, statistician...