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GENERAL CATALOGUE LISTS 16,158 ALUMNI

December, 1925
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GENERAL CATALOGUE LISTS 16,158 ALUMNI
December, 1925

The General Catalogue of the College, a 1,000-page volume containing lists of the presidents, trustees, administrative officers, members of the faculty, alumni, and non-graduates, is off the press and is being distributed to subscribers, direct from the Rumford Press. Copies may be obtained by addressing the Treasurer of the College at Hanover. The cost of the volume is $3.00.

This is the first issue of the General Catalogue since 1910. The material' was prepared in the Office of Alumni Records.

Addresses of all living officers and alumni are given and brief biographical sketches of all officials and graduates of the college since it was founded are stated where the information was available. This material is also given about officials and graduates of the associated schools.

Three indexes are given in the catalogue, one of officers of the College, a geographical index of living graduates and non-graduates, and a general index of the book.

Pictures of college buildings and descriptive material are not included in the new catalogue as in the catalogue of 1910. The list of nongraduates of the college and associated schools in separate sections which is included in the new catalogue was not attempted in previous editions.

Forty-five pages in the new edition are devoted to a list of graduates and non-graduates who have received honorary degrees from the college since 1773.

The first General Catalogue of the College was published ijj 1779 in the form of a broadside printed on cloth. The catalogues were published every three years from 1795 to 1873 all of which were printed in Latin except the last which was in English. Editions have appeared since in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 with several interim publications giving the addresses of living graduates.

The new edition discloses that 14,613 persons, approximately the number of people that will witness the Dartmouth-Cornell game Saturday, have received degrees from the college and include the following:

College (Bachelor Degrees) 11,521 Medical School 2,175 Thayer School 376 Tuck School 322 Advanced Degrees 149 Honorary Degrees , 1,615 Total 16,158 Deduct for names used more than once 1,545 Total number of persons 14,613 Number living 7,495 Number deceased 7,118