It accommodates at the present writing some nine hundred students, the tuition being free to all native applicants suitably prepared; it contains also a noble library of over two hundred thousand volumes, besides many manuscripts of inestimable value.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
An afternoon was given by Judge Wing, who presided, for the hearing of the petition of the applicants.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
After about two years of service on Blackwell's Island, Dr. O'Dwyer, who had attracted no little attention by his faithful fulfilment of duty, was appointed examiner of patients-applicants for admission to the hospitals under the control of the City Board of Charities and Correction.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh