Field Notebook: New York, Texas 1926
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YALE HAS 5,294 STUDENTS. Total Shows 151 Increases Over Last Year's Enrolment. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 22.—The total enrolment of Yale University is 5,294, according to figures given out by the university Secretary today. This is an increase of 151 over last year. Yale College, with 1,464 students, is the largest school. Fifty-six more men are enrolled there than last year. The Sheffield Scientific School has a total enrolment of 724, an increase of six- teen. Numbers in both these schools are automatically limited by the limita- tion of the common freshman year to 850, Other notable increases are in the graduate school, which has 538 candi- dates for degrees, against 469 last year, and in the School of the Fine Arts, which has 226 candidates for degrees, contrasted with 148 last year. Yale now has 1,025 officers, teachers, and assistants in instruction and admin- istration, including twenty-two research fellows. The increase in staff over last year is eighty-seven. There are 198 pro- fessors, including university officers of equivalent rank; forty associate profes- sors; 124 assistant professors; 233 in- structors, and 428 assistants in instruc- tion and administration.