’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<?»»
ometry,’'
LANCE LETS.
A Froshinon with bond very wlque,
Smoked a pipeful of ancient perique,
He grew pale as a ghos l ,
Loaned against a lamp-post,
And collapsed with a horrible shrlquo,