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A number of alumni have made meaningful contributions to arts and letters: Joel T. Headley ( 1839 ), author of numerous books about the Adirondack Mountains and early American history ; William James Stillman ( 1848 ), photographer and author ; Fitz Hugh Ludlow ( 1856 ), author of The Hashish Eater ; Andrea Barrett ( 1974 ), winner of the National Book Award ( for Ship Fever ) and the Pulitzer Prize for works of fiction ; and David Markson ( 1950 ), author of titles such as The Ballad of Dingus Magee.
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In the 2011 International Professional Ranking of Higher Education Institutions, which is established on the basis of the number of alumni holding a post of Chief executive officer ( CEO ) or equivalent in one of the Fortune Global 500 companies, Chalmers University of Technology ranked 38th in the world, ranking 1st in Sweden and 15th in Europe.
Since the election of a number of petition-nominated trustees to the Board of Trustees starting in 2004, the role of alumni in Dartmouth governance has been the subject of ongoing conflict.
A number of Dartmouth alumni have found success in professional sports.
After improvements in 2006, the stadium is currently configured to seat 47, 000 for football but can readily be reconfigured to its original capacity of 70, 000, more than the total number of Rice alumni, living and deceased.
Since 1952, more than 50 Stanford faculty, staff, and alumni have won the Nobel Prize, and Stanford has the largest number of Turing award winners ( dubbed the " Nobel Prize of Computer Science ") for a single institution.
A number of episodes of Enterprise were directed by Star Trek alumni:
Utrecht University counts a number of distinguished scholars among its alumni and faculty, including several Nobel Prize laureates:
However, the growth of social networking websites has allowed the development of a number of unofficial UMIST alumni groups in cyberspace, particularly on Facebook.
There are a total of 11, 877 registered undergraduate students and more than 1, 000 graduates students, with a total number of more than 16, 000 alumni network.
Since then, the number of Jacobs alumni has increased more than tenfold from 130 to over 1, 500, about 80 % of which have joined the alumni association.
The number of students interested in public interest law positions expanded as Harvard has begun to offer summer funding for public interest internships and low income loan reduction plans for alumni who take on careers in the public interest and academia.
The Department of Music has a number of distinguished alumni, including Malcolm McLaren, Katy B, James Blake and John Cale.
* École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris ranked the University of Tokyo 1st in the world on the basis of the number of alumni listed among CEOs in the 500 largest worldwide companies.
Western's alumni also include a number of provincial premiers, including former premiers of Ontario John Robarts and David Peterson, and the former premier of Alberta, Don Getty.
For reunions, the invitees are generally graduate alumni from a number of ( usually two or three ) consecutive matriculation years, e. g. 1999-2001.
Bowdoin came into its own in the 1820s, a decade in which Maine became an independent state as a result of the Missouri Compromise and the college graduated a number of its most famous alumni, including future United States President Franklin Pierce, class of 1824, and writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, both of whom graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1825.
The number of graduates has grown from just 8 in 2006 to over 200 in 2009, while the alumni network has exceeded 1, 000 in 2010.
There are also alumni associations ; religious and political organizations ; clubs devoted to various topics such as innovation, human rights, beer, oatmeal, anime and computers ; and The Association for Various Associations, which is a parody of the university's large number of student organizations.
In a mass meeting, or " in a regular or properly called meeting " of an organization whose bylaws do not prescribe a quorum and whose membership is loosely determined, such as many religious congregations or alumni associations, " there is no minimum number of members who must be present for the valid transaction of business, or — as it is usually expressed — the quorum consists of those who attend the meeting.
The school was long an institution that targeted commuter students from the Boston area, however in the school's pursuit of a national legacy, that function has been forgotten as the number of commuter students enrolled dropped from well over 50 % to a mere three students, according to statistics published by the alumni magazine.
A number of prominent local and national politicians and judges are Providence College alumni.
There are currently around 442, 000 living MSU alumni worldwide giving the school one of the largest number of alumni of any institution of higher learning.
Founded in 1858, Columbia is surpassed only by Yale and Harvard in the number of alumni who have served on the Supreme Court and has more alumni in the Forbes 400 than any other law school.
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Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.
Hence all teachers, good and bad, who have been teaching for a given number of years are paid the same salary.
To have any success in this effort, we must ourselves view it as an enterprise stretching over a considerable number of years, and we must encourage the recipients of our aid to view it in the same fashion.
For those communities which have financial difficulties in effecting adjustments, there are a number of alternatives any one of which alone, or in combination with others, would minimize if not even eliminate the problem.
There have been a number of sound plans proposed.
Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.
To provide the continuous flow of information basic to administrative decisions, a number of institutions have established offices of institutional research.
A large number of these Juniors have 7 and 8 wins to their credit and are seasoned campaigners.
As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.
Aside from the Ruger carbine, a number of hunting rifles have been introduced for the first time.
A number of them must have fallen into disfavor ; ;
Based on this phenomenon, a number of investigators have used this method to `` look through '' human organs.
In the GE plan, a number of individual contributors have positions and compensation higher than those of many managers.
`` These recent steps do not offer the possibility of extension to the great number of senior engineers who have displayed technical competence.
The railroads have responded by adding 20,000 more box cars with doors 12' or wider for forklift unloading ( a 21% increase while the total number of box cars was falling 6% ) and by cutting their freight rates twice on lumber shipped in heavily loaded cars.
However, whether you arrange to have a European or American model, if you rent a car with the proper seating capacity in relation to the number of people in your party, your transportation expense will average very close to $10.00 per day per passenger.
For the last two years, this frontier of the arts has produced a number of so-called `` non-dramas '' which have left indelible, bittersweet impressions on the psyche of this veteran theatregoer.
A number of semiempirical estimates by various workers lead to the conclusion that the Af bond becomes symmetric when the Af bond length is about 2.4 to 2.5 A, but aside from the possible example of nickel dimethylglyoxime there have been no convincing reports of symmetric Af bonds.
Since practical washing procedures are both lengthy and expensive, a number of laboratory tests have been developed for the numerical evaluation of detergents.
For an experiment to qualify as a binomial experiment, it must have four properties: ( 1 ) there must be a fixed number of trials, ( 2 ) each trial must result in a `` success '' or a `` failure '' ( a binomial trial ), ( 3 ) all trials must have identical probabilities of success, ( 4 ) the trials must be independent of each other.
The graph, as a set, may have a finite number of components.
Furthermore, one can find a neighborhood of Q in which the difference function is monotone, for since it is analytic it can have only a finite number of extrema in any interval.
The remaining ( incomplete ) components all have an even number of ordinary points at any argument, and are defined only on a proper sub-interval of Aj.
A number of strong independent agencies, established in some cases with governmental or royal support, have conducted large medical, social, educational and research operations in particular parts of the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi.
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