’B7-W. F. White is now connected with the Western Engineering Co., Lincoln, Neb., the announcement of which we have at hand. Messrs. J. G. White and D. C. Jackson, who comprise the firm, are alumni of P. S. C. Both took post graduate courses at Cornell, the for mer receiving the degree of Ph. D., and the latter afterwards becoming an instructor in Electrical Engineering at Cornell. COLLEGE ORBIT. There are 18,000 women attending colleges in the United States. At Ann Arbor, Mich., the Japanese students have a society of their own. President Eliot has returned to Harvard after considerable travel in Europe. At the State Y. M. C. A. convention fifty one college delegates were present. In the United States are 101 medical col leges with 15,000 students in attendance. The junior class of Yale Law School num bers seventy, which is exceptionally large. George Washington was the first one who re ceived the degree of LL.D. from Harvard. Cornell University registered nearly 1,000. The new law department numbers forty men. It costs the government sio,oop a year to furnish the students at West Point with music. Rutger’s College offers one prize of s4oo' and another of #5OO for the best entrance exami nations. ■ At Princeton a prize of #l5OO is given to the Sophomore .who passes the best examination in the classics. It is said that Harvard is trying to purchase the Massachusetts School of Technology as an addition to herself. The largest remuneration received by any professor is $20,000, the salary paid to Professor Turner, of Edinburgh. The time of the four-mile boat race between Yale and the University of Pennsylvania is.: Yale, 22m. 205., University, 22m. 395. It is said that in this country one man out of every two hundred graduates from a college, in England’ one out of five hundred, in Scotland one out of six hundred, and in Germany one out of hyp hundred and thirteen, THE FREE LANCE. • The number of graduates of the University of Pennsylvania is 13,420, of whom 10,420 grad uated from the department of medicine, The new Catholic University will be built at Washington. It will require $8,000,000 to build the University and place it on firm footing. Professor Davis, of Yale, has discovered a volcano about half-way up Mt. Lamentation, Hartford county, which he is certain is of much older origin than the mountain. This is exciting interest. Princeton has fellowships worth'ssoo to $6OO per year. They are filled by post graduates. President McCosh now announces that certain fellowships recently established will be thrown open to graduates of approved American colleges. The large number of the Freshman class at Yale the present year is attributed in some degree to her success in athletics last season. There are, however, large entries at most colleges, which is a matter of congratulation and significance in every way. • * * A dollar in your pocket is worth five in a bill. * * Inertia is the physical condition which follows indisposition. * * The trees are about to leave, although their trunks will remain. . * * Cats are known to be very mewsical ani mals They hold very a mew-sing concerts. * * Why are College Seniors like parlor matches ? Because they have a decided "snap.” * * Sam Jones says : "Next to a pretty woman I love a fast horse.” We don’t. When we are next to a pretty woman we want a slow horse. * * Professor (to promising pupil) : "What is bigamy ?” Promising pupil : "Having two wives at the same time.” Professor: "Correct. Now what is the name of the crime when a man has three wives j”’ Premising pupil; "Trig