an Evangelist, and is doing a noble work in his profession. ’B3-Geo. C. Blitz is at Beaumont, Cal., en gaged as Landscape Gardener and Florist. His thorough acquaintance with hot-houses, &c., would make him a valuable man to put in charge of that work here, when the new experimental station is established. —Miss Carrie Corlies, formerly a student of this institution, who has been residing in Mans field, Ohio, since that time, recently moved with her parents to Washington, D. C. Her friends at P. S, C. are looking forward to her contem plated visit in commencement week. COLLEGE ORBIT. Allegheny College has six secret fraternities, Princeton’s tug-of-war team is the best they ever had One of the novelties of Harvard is a French debating society. Henry Ward Beecher’s grade at college was 57, on a scale of 100 Harvard numbers among its alumni Ban croft, the veteran historian. Swarthmore has been admitted to the Inter- Collegiate base ball association. Harvard will again be prohibited from play ing professional ball clubs this year. Williams College boasts the best ball catcher among colleges in the country to-day. Caston Hall, a part of Tabor College build ings, Tabor, la , has been dedicated. The Utah State College, a Mormon institu tion, is the best endowed college in the West. Webster and Worcester, the two great lexi cographers, are among the alumni of Yale. The Rev. Dr, Charles H. Seymour has been THE FREE LANCE. elected president of Griswold College, Daven- port, la. Monson A. Wilcox, of Osborne, N. Y., has been elected president of Kalamazoo College, Michigan. The undergraduates of the Harvard law de partment have started a new magazine called the Harvard Law Review. The Yale club will race with the University of Pennsylvania club June 25th, and with the Harvard club about July Ist. Columbia has celebrated its centennial on the border of a proud past and a future stretching out into bright prospects. The average age of those who enter college in this country is 17 years. A century ago it was 14. The facilities for preparing are greater, but the standard of admission is higher. Amherst College is to establish a professor ship of physical culture with an endowment of $50,000, as a memorial of Henry Ward Beecher. Dr. McCosh proposes a plan to make Prince ton College a university which will rank with the higher institutions of learning in this Country and Europe. A new religious journal has been started by a committee of the Inter-Collegiate Y. M, C. A., and circulated through several colleges. It is called the Inter-Collegian. Wabash College has lately received an en dowment of $50,000 from the late Sidney B. Sabin, La Porte, Ind.; also another of $lO,OOO from Mr. Preserved, of Dayton, Ohio. At West Point the hours of five days of the week are employed as follows : Reveille, 6a.m. j breakfast, 6.30; recitation commences at Ba. m. and continues till 1 ; dinner at 1 p. m. Recitations from 2 till 4p. m. From 4p. m. till 7 p. m. is devoted to military duties and to recreation,
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