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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Placards are posted on the various bulletin boards announcing a meeting of all candidates for the varsity nine in Capt. Henshaw's room to-night...
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...
...material and developing it. In the Mott Haven team, Yale has been bringing out the strength of the freshman class and has already some good athletes who promise to help bring the cup if Harvard does not arise and work. Nothing comes without work, so either the various teams must commence to practice or the good resolutions of the new year will come to naught...
...large increase in the number of students seeking an education at some one of the various schools connected with the University, and the additions to the scholarship fund for indigent students arising from the Greenleaf bequest, are the chief points to be noticed in the new Harvard Catalogue. That Harvard University is becoming more and more a veritable centre of learning, is easily seen when the number of students connected with the institution during the college years of 1886-87 and 1887-88 are compared, showing an attendance during the former year of 1688 to 1812 for the present year...
...boys by the ministers in and around Cambridge, who were well educated Englishmen and talked Latin with their pupils. There was also by the college "a faire Grammar school, for the training up of young scholars and fitting them for academical learning," (10) The relative importance of the various branches of academic discipline, as indicated in this original curriculum of Harvard College, appears to have been as follows: First, philosophy (logic and physics, two hours; ethics and politics, two hours; disputations, six hours); altogether ten hours a week. Greek came next, occupying, with New Testament Greek, seven hours. Rhetoric...