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1908

Beloit College attendance in the four college classes increased to 341.

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PropertyMay 1908Month

The Janesville and Beloit teams of the new Trolley League met at Yost's Park; both teams had won their games the previous Sunday (reported in the Janesville Daily Gazette of Saturday, May 9, 1908, for a game the following day).

PropertyOctober 1908Month

The summer cottage of Edward Fairchild at Yost's park, near Beloit, was destroyed by fire (reported in issues of October 15, 1908).

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Beloit College attendance in the four college classes increased to 341.

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The neAv gymnasium for men, long needed and desired by those who sought the physical well-being of the students, was opened in 1904, and in January of the following year the Carnegie Library building was dedicated. The attendance of students in the four college classes increased from 196 in 1897 to 341 in 1908, and the number of graduates has risen in the same ten years from 539 to 958. The faculty, likewise, has been enlarged, so that there are now thirty-six instructors in all departments instead of the twenty-two who were on the ground in 1897.

Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.Vol. 1, PDF p. 343 / book p. 315

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1908

Beloit College attendance in the four college classes increased to 341.

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Beloit College attendance in the four college classes increased to 341.

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The neAv gymnasium for men, long needed and desired by those who sought the physical well-being of the students, was opened in 1904, and in January of the following year the Carnegie Library building was dedicated. The attendance of students in the four college classes increased from 196 in 1897 to 341 in 1908, and the number of graduates has risen in the same ten years from 539 to 958. The faculty, likewise, has been enlarged, so that there are now thirty-six instructors in all departments instead of the twenty-two who were on the ground in 1897.