Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attention of students is specially called to the directions of the English Composition card. Each student is held responsible for a knowledge of those directions, and is expected to follow them implicitly...
...taking place it may not be out of the way for us to suggest that a radical reform should take place in the matter of delivering messages. This department should be attended to as carefully as that of transmission. A case has come to our notice, in which a student dangerously ill received a message from his family, which was not delivered until six hours after it had reached Cambridge...
Hitherto the executive management of Yale have boasted that the expenses at Yale were as low as those of any college in the country. The increased expense to the student is estimated at $51, or about $1.37 a week, counting thirty-seven weeks to the collegiate year. It will not, however, affect those students who are assisted by the university, and they will still enjoy the same privileges...
...within a few years the students had a custom of selling their chances for a choice of rooms, and sometimes a wealthy student who preferred a favorite room did not hesitate to pay a bonus of $300 for a choice...
...STUDENT POPULATION INCREASED.The summary in the new catalogue for the year 1888 shows that there are 1,245 students in Yale, distributed among the various departments as follows:- Graduate department, 69, academic, 614; Sheffield Scientific School, 291; Art School, 53; Divinity School, 117; Medical School, 26, and the Law School, 94. This makes an aggregate increase over last year of 111, of which nearly half is in the academic department and about twenty in the Sheffield Scientific School. The catalogue is the largest, most complete and conveniently arranged of any that has ever been issued by the university...