—At New York, John M. Ward, of Bellefonte,
to Miss Helen Dauvray, of New York. The
newly-married couple rank high in their profes
sions, one as a base ball player, the other as an
actress.
—Wat. L. Barclay, ’Bg, will leave college at
the close of the term and go into the lumber bus
iness with his father at Sinnemahoning, Pa. Bar
clay takes a great interest in athletic sports, and
will be greatly missed by his many friends at the
college.
. ’76-Benjamin F. Keller was married to Miss
Mercy J. Baldy, Thursday, Oct. 25, at Christ
Memorial Church, Danville, Pa. Mr. Keller is
at present a clerk in the Interior Department of
very high standing, but expects to commence the
practice of law soon. On his wedding tour he
visited friends in Bellefonte, Pa.
COLLEGE ORBIT.
Cornell no longer gives honors at gradua-
The University of Pennsylvania has a class
of twenty in Assyrian.
Andrew Carnegie is a trustee of the Penn
sylvania State College,
Columbia College possesses a copy of Shake
speare valued at $3,000.
242 different courses are afforded to the stu
dents of Michigan University.
Cornell is said to have a capital of #6,000,-
000, which is rapidly increasing.
The Boston Institute of Technology receives
#lOO,OOO per year from the State.
Columbia has more students in all her de
partments than any other college in the United
States.
The University of Pennsylvania has #50,000
to build a classic theatre and #lO,OOO to build a
library.
#53,300 is given annually by Harvard to
needy students seeking an education at the Uni
versity.
Prof. Schaeffer, Dean of Cornell University,
has accepted the presidency of the lowa State
University.
The annual expenses of the Freshmen at
Yale for lacrosse, foot-ball, and boating are said
to be #43,000.
The Juniors of Cornell encourage athletics
THE FREE LANCE.
by giving annually a reward of #5O to the best
athlete in the class.
The United States has 59,594 college and
university students in 364 colleges and universi
ties, with 4,160 instructors,
At Baliol College the students may substitute
German for Greek. This action has been taken
by Dr. Jewett, perhaps the foremost Greek schol
ar of the age.
Wellesley College opened this year with 615
students. Miss Rose Cleveland is mentioned as
a probable successor to the retiring president,
Miss Alice Freeman.
Yale is to have a new recitation hall; and
Harvard is to have a new hall costing #200,000 to
be built by the Hastings family, which has long
been represented in the University.
John M. Ward (“Monte” Ward) has been
invited to deliver a lecture at Amherst on base
ball. Mr. Ward learned to play ball at the Penn
sylvania State College.
Cornell is making a noble effort to obtain a
fine Y, M. C. A. building, but the students should
not reflect discredit upon themselves and the As--
sociation in class matters after the manner of pol
iticians.
Columbia College will soon adopt a new
marking system exempting men of high standing
from examinations, and in Illinois College a stu
dent who gets a grade of 85 per cent, is excused
from examinations.
Johns Hopkins University held seventeen
thousand shares of Baltimore & Ohio stock,
which yielded an income of #136,000 annually.
Recently, however, the stock of this company de
preciated in value so that the income is somewhat
curtailed.
Detectives on the part of the state are hunt
ing down the students of Williams who were en
gaged in the late obnoxious hazing, and the col
lege authorities have forbidden rushes under pen
alty of debarring a representation in the base ball
league.
The Dickinson College foot-ball team, after
suffering successsve defeats, was unable to meet
the guarantee of #4O for a game at Carlisle with
the Pennsylvania State College team. The latter
team afterward offered Dickinson a guarantee of
#5O and local expenses, but they refused.
At Harvard, work on college papers is allow
ed as substitute for regular literary exercises.—
Ex. Good plan. We would like to see it tried
here.— •Dickinsonian. Ditto University of Wis-