—We notice the name of our former student
and resident, Robert Gibson, on the staff of the
Jeffersonian of Washington and Jefferson College.
—President Geo. W. Atherton was elected
president of the first convention of presidents of
Agricultural and Industrial Colleges and Direc
tors of Experimental Stations, which met at
Washington, D. C.
—Prof. W. H. Jordan, former member of our
faculty, now director of Maine Experimental Sta
tion, while on his .way home from Washington
stopped off a few days with us. He recognized
many of the old students.
COLLEGE ORBIT.
Cornell no longer compels attendance upon
recitations,
The death of a sophomore at Yale lately oc
curred, caused by playing foot-ball.
There is a movement on foot to establish a
new colored university at Montgomery, Ala.
Prof. Charles W. Dabney has taken his posi
tion as president of the University of Tennessee.
Leyden University, Holland, is the richest
in the world. Its real estate is valued at $4,000,-
000.
The faculty of Yale recently expelled a soph
omore for hazing, and is pressing charges made
against others.
Maine State College is to have a new build
ing for the departments of Natural History and
Agriculture.
The Pennsylvania State College foot-ball
team will play the Dickinson College team at
Carlisle Nov. 23.
Ex-President Adams, of Cornell, attributes
his physical vigor at college and afterward to the
rowing he did while a student.
The scientific building now in course of erec
tion at the University of Wisconsin will surpass
any college building of the kind in the United
States.
The principal building of the New York
College of Physicians and Surgeons was lately
dedicated. The building cost half a million
dollars, the gift of the Iq.te jyijligm IJ, Vander
bilt,
THE FREE LANCE.
Bishop Keane, of Richmond, has been elect
ed first Rector of the proposed Catholic Univer
sity which is to be situated at Washington, D. C.
Dr. H. B. Adams, of Johns-Hopkins Uni
versity,suggests that an academy be established at
Washington to render the government the same
aid in civil affairs as West Point renders in affairs
of war.
Students entering German universities are
furnished with tickets which admit them.to the
theatres at half price, free them from liability to
arrest by the civil authorities, and admit them to
many of the European museums.
Prof. Wheeler, Assistant Professor of Phil
ology at Cornell, was recently promoted to a full
professor. .One thousand dollars were appropria
ted to his department, and he was granted leave
of absence for a year to study in Europe.
Three-fifths of the editors in this country are
college graduates; eleven of seventeen, presi
dents; of twenty, vice presidents ; ten of twenty
nine, secretaries of state ; nineteen of twenty
one, associate judges of the Supreme Court.-
* * Wo wore wutolilng tho game from tlio grand stand,
Tlie Crimson versus the Blue.
Blue were her fluttering ribbons,
Her eyes wero tho same loyal hue.
* * “Median’mulierem compleotitur” student
translates, in recitation, “he embraced the woman
by the middle.”
LANCELETS.
On the seoro-oard her ilulnty Inscriptions
Kept tally detailed and proolse ;
By this exhibition of learning
She “scored” her flrst point In my eyes.
Said I, “Your eyes are a battory
In blno—they suoh havoo commit.”
In tho swift downward droop of hot' oyollds,
I knew I had “tallied a hit.”
Underneath tho long fringe of her laslios
1 “gained my flrst" glanoo at her heart—
But In "stealing my seoond” I felt “put out,”
By her trying my purpose to thwart.
That glanoo of hers though, was a “liner,”
To my heart she had made a “homo rim,”
Though vanquished I yet was exultant—
By her “battery work" she had won
* * BKNTIMBNT OF KA9Y-OOINO STUDENT.
Wo cnnnot conquer nil,
Toll us wo will llio groutor goes unknown
Then lot It go In peace, before wo full,
And life no longer sits upon Its tlu'ono.
A muster will 1 bo, and not a slave.
JJpok-l'liHUpr t 9 tll° B I '»VV •
—Colby Echo,