Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-07

New Haven, April 6.-Many inter-
esting figures are included in the nrst
statistics of the 24S members of the
Senior class in the Sheffield Scientlhc
School which were published Tuesday.
The Class of 1916 S. has spent, during
its three years in New Haven, SI6S,tt4
average expense per man OF an educa-
ton in Shelf has amounted to SS,l1S,
or S1,051 per year. -Four thousand
five hundred dollars was the largest
amount spent by one man for one
year and $3.50 the smallest. senior
year has proved the most expensive
costing $1062 per men. Junior year
came next with S1O56, and Freshman
year last with 1895. One hundred and
twelve men have earned their way
through college, either altogether or IN
part, and twenty-one men have earned
all the money which they have spent
during their college course. The av-
GRACE yearly allowance received from
home has been S1,1S2; one man mas
received So, 600, but the other extreme
is reached by a man who received only
$50. The votes of the Seniors on the
relative values of various insignia,
denoting success in undergraduate &C
tiYities showed the ~" TO be the most
coveted honor. The average age OF
the Class of 1916 S. is q years, 3
months. The Oldest member is ~
years, months; and tie youngest, IL
ears, 4 I1lOIllAlS- AL - III NDSA--S--
have chosen as their future occupa-
lions business and mechanical en-
gineering. Electrical and civil engin-
eering come next in order. SiHty-four
men are going to enter professional
schools and OF these sc viii take grad
uate courses at Yale. Eighty eight
Seniors prepared for college at pre-
paratory schools, and a at nigh
! schools. New Haven High sent 80, the
| largest contingent. Andover and Elk
eter are second and third. The fath-
ers of only 10 of the Shelf. Seniors are
Yale graduates, while the fathers of 81
| are college grauates. Next to Yale,
| Columbia and New York University
are best represented. Two hundred
| and eleven fathers did not attend any
! college. One hundred and twelve men
use alcoholic liquors of whom So did
| so before entering college. One hun
| dred and ninety-two Seniors use to-
| bacco, of whom II acquired the habit
| while in college. The total number Of
| church members is 221. The EpiScO-
| pal church claims the largest num-
| Der, having 65 members; the ConSre-
| gatiOnalists come second with AZ. Il
| is also interesting to note that IS
| Seniors are gagged, and four are
married men. The favorite college
| next to Yale was Princeton, which re-
ceived 122 votes; Harvard was second
with 80, and Cornell third with p.
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| received 10. Lincoln was voted the
| favorite character in history, and the
| New York Times was voted the most
| popular newspaper.
| At a meeting held last Saturday,
! Wilbur Lucius Cross, Professor of
| English in the Sheffield Scientific
| School and Editor of the Yale Review,
was appointed Dean of the Graduate
| School; he was chosen by the Faculty,
and the appointment approved by the
| Corporation. He win succeed Dean
| Hans Oertel, who is now in Germany.
Professor Cross will take up his new
duties on July l, when Professor Will
liam Walker, who is now acting dean
| will end his term. Mr.. Cross is well
| known to a wide circle of Yale men as
a teacher of English Literature, q
| writer, and as the remarkably efficient
editor of the Yale Review. a gradu-
ate of Yale in the Glass of 1885, he
| received the degree of Phi. D. here in
| 1889, and since 1894, has taught with
conspicuous success in the Sheffield
| Scientific School. He will retain his
| editorship of the Yale Review, but will
not continue in the faculty of the
Sheffield Scientific School. Dean Ger
| tel, whose work has been of great ad-
| vantage to the school for the last five
| years, still remains in Germany. He
| was i'll in the early autumn, but is
now recovered. Just when he will re-
| turn to Yale is uncertain