By The Numbers

Cost of one year’s instruction in 1880: $200



Cost of tuition for the 2009-2010 school year: $33,696



Number of members in the cast of Acropolis Now, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 161st Show: 12



Number of performances put on this year: 38



Year of the staging of the HPT’s first production, Bombastes Furioso: 1844



Age of Paul Dudley, class of 1690, the youngest person ever to be admitted to Harvard: 10



Estimated IQ of Willian James Sidis, class of 1909, a child prodigy who entered Harvard at age 11: 300



Number of books stolen fron Widener library found in the home of a University graduate: 2,054



Number of books in the University’s entire collection: 15,965,675