The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-27
YALE HIT BY
 HIGH PRICES
COST OF BUTTER AND POTATOES ALONE RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS OF $3,5O1.76 IN
 DINING HALL.
COLLEGE YEAR BEGINS WITH OVER 5000 STUDENTS AT OPENING OF FALL
 TERM.

Yale opened yesterday for the fall term with an estimated attendance of over 5000 students, 325 of whom were entered in the academic fresh man departmen No absolute figures can be given on the registration until the end of the week. The examina- tiors were finished yesterday and the entrance committee spent an all-night session in marking papers in order to inform entrance candidates of their marking today. Three hundred and twenty-five whp passed the examina ton have entered, and this mum Der will be augmented from 25 to 50 to- day
 The registration at Shelf will prob a bly reach the 400 mark or over. The senior class this year in the academic department numbers about 270: in Shelf 325.
 Registratfon in the medical, music and law departments does not close until October 1, so no figures are available there yet.
 The dedication of, the new Wright Memorial dorrnitory will take place l November g, the day of the Yale Harvard game All those who have contributed to the building fund will be the invited guests of the univer- sity on that occasion.
 The annual report of the treasurer of Yale university for the year ending June 30, 1912, just issued, shows that total gifts and bequests to both 1n- come and principal for the year 1911- 1912 amounted to s1164,716.so as compared with $1,134, S35.O1 for 1910- ever, after deductfng payments from Building and Improvements Funds and from the Loan Fund is but $4S7,- 312.45 as against $306, 6,605.82 year ago. The deficit for the year of the university, considered as a teaching organization only, is $14,9SS-54 for of $1s,15e.6s for 1s10-1s11. The de- partment reporting the largest deficit is again the Medical school, with a debit balance of $25, ,476.O9 for the year. Attention Is directed to z it's needs however, not so much on ac- count of the present showing as be- cause of the great opportunity before it in view of the offer of the New Ha- hospital to join forces with the university's Medical department pro- vfded the latter can secure largely in creased endowment
 Evidence of the increased cost of living Is furnished by the figures for the operation of the dining hall. The higher cost of two articles on the sta pie list-potatpes and butter-z,is more than sufficisntsteraee aeeeuntTs forz1 tIa e years loss of. s3,5o1.76. Average at 7S9 for 191I-191z, as compared with 727 for =1s10-4911, and the average weekly charge for board only s5.34 1s1o-1s11, s5.42 in 1s0s-1s1o. and $5.43 in 1908-1S09- In carrying out it's regular policy of favoring pur
 
 things being equal. the university has expended for local purchases in the last fiscal year $S6, ,356.4 45, Cor 6S per cent. of the total disbursements for supplies.
 The installation of University private branch telephone exchange has resulted in lower charges to each department for the equivalent of ser vice supplied before the opening Of the exchange, and in an increase of over 3 per cent. in the number of telephones connected herewith. The traffic records indicate a total of up- wards of 250.O0O calls through the exchange during the college year.
 Total investments of the university are shown as SIS, 3,524.SS2-8 80s with an average yield of 4.97 per cent. as compared with 4.92 per cent. in 19d0- 1911 and 4.8S per cent. for 1909-1s10. Som mewhat oyer one-half of this total, Or s6,8O1.7b6.31, is in bonds; while $2,314,475.26 is in stocks, $s,664,- 631.00 is represented by notes secured by mortgage and $744,160.23 in real estate.