In addition to the regular university courses, a public lecture course under the auspices of the university and a large number of lecture courses under the auspices of the various university de partments and organizations are carried on. Among the latter are the Lyman Beecher Lec tures, the SilMilan Memorial Lectures, the Dodge Lectures, and others. The whole number of vol umes in the several libraries of the university (1004) about 371.000. The university li brary proper. containing about 290,000 volumes and many thousands of unbound pamphlets, shows an annual increase of more than 10,000 volumes.
On October 20-23. 1901, the university cele brated the two hundredth anniversary of the founding, of Yale College. The celebration, for which plans had been in preparation for• several years, included the publication of a series of volumes by members of the various faculties; addresses by distinguished alumni and others; exhibitions of educational and other material; the dedication of the new university hall; and the completion of a bicentennial fund of $1, 500,000, contributed chiefly by the alumni, which Las been devoted to the erection of new buildings.
These inelude the Administration Building (R•oodbrid'e Hall), University flail. Memorial Hall. and Woolsey Hall. in he auditorium of which university functions are combieled. Among other recent buildings are Byers Hall. to serve the social and religious purposes of the Sheffield Seientific School; Kirkland nail, a laboratory for geology and kindred sciences; a dormitory given to the scientific school by Fred erick W. Vanderbilt; and the Lampson Lyceum, containing lecture halls and administration of fices for the academic department.
The total student enrollment in 1903-04 was 2903, distributed as follows: Graduate, 333; college, 1250; Sheffield Sjentifie School, 837; fine arts, 35; music, 82; Forest School, 04; divin ity, 97; medicine, 141; law, 259. The faculty consisted of 339 instructors.