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Title: Memories of Yale life and men, 1854-1899
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Dwight, Timothy, 1828-1916
Subjects: Yale University
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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niversity. These brief statements, which in themselves are quitesuggestive, may gain a certain additional emphasis, as Ithink, if we call to mind the fact that of the entirenumber of graduates of the institution, in all its de-partments, from the beginning of its history to the closeof the academic year 1899, nearly one-third receivedtheir degrees within these thirteen years, while of thealumni who were living at the date of the BicentennialAnniversary in 1901 one-half were graduates duringthe same period. Passing now from our consideration of the studentcommunity in order to observe the increase in the mem-bership of the Faculty, we may notice that, in 1846,there were in all the departments of the institution twen-ty-one professors and permanent officials, including thePresident, together with fifteen tutors or other tempo-rary teachers, connected with the Board of Instruction.At the close of the academic year 1870-71, the totalnumber in the Board was sixty-four; forty-five being 460
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C/5 o 2 E^ MEMORIES OF YALE LIFE AND MEN professors or gentlemen having permanent positions,while nineteen were tutors or instructors appointed onlyfor a limited period. The body of permanent officials,as well as of those of a more temporary order, was so farenlarged by successive additions during the fifteen yearsfollowing 1871, that in June, 1886, there were onehundred and fourteen persons enrolled in the member-ship of the Board. Of these persons seventy-six heldprofessorships, assistant professorships, or positions of asomewhat similar character, and thirty-eight had beencalled to render service as instructors for a more or lessdefinite term. Between 1886 and 1899 the enlargementwas still further manifest, and in the last-named yearthere were in the Faculty of the University one hundredand twenty officers of the former class and one hundredand forty of the latter. The total number at the endof these thirteen years, accordingly, was two hundredand sixty as compared with one hundred

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