—Harry White, one of our very popular fresh men, is now at his home in Milroy,• where he will remain for an indefinite time because of very ser ous trouble with his hip, —Charles Musser was obliged to return home the first of this month on account of a sprained knee. He was injured while exercising on the foot-ball grounds last fall. —Prof. James McKee has been very ill with typhoid fever for the past three weeks. During his illness Prof. Heston has had charge of his class in mental and moral science. • 'Bs—Dugald C. Jackson ~ was on a business trip through Minnesota and Dakota about the time of the great blizzards in that country, and had the misfortune•to be caught in one. • --Mark Baldwin will visit us next summer. This we hope will be some inducement for. some of our young pitchers to practice so as to be able to give him a few points when he comes. The following Professors have given addresses lately. Prof. Armsb); before the State Dairyman's Association; Prof. Buckhout before the State Board of Agriculture and State Horticulture ciety; and Prof. Frear before the Columbia and Clinton Co., Institutes. —Mr. Howard Wishart, a former student who was so unfortunate as to lose his•right foot while coupling cars on the H. & B. T. Mt. R R. Dist August, is at present engaged as a clerk in Gen eral managers office of the above railroad at Huntingdon. Although he carries the "wood," he is as jovial as of yore. May success attend you yet, Howard. 'B7—J. F. Healy, has been with us for some time, and we can say that the P. S. C. halls have not been trod by a more welcome visitor for a long time. He is a representative we are proud of. Though having been out of college but a few years he is now Division Constructing Engineer for the Cincinnati, Washville and Birmingham R. R., and has an offer to superintend the construction of a new road to run between Port Royal, S. C., and Knoxville, ,Tenn, We hope his successes shall continue. COLLEGE ORBIT. At Cornell there are three Greek fraternities among the ladies, Five colleges have been founded in Dakota during the last year. THE FREE LANCE. Fifteen new colleges come into existence in the United States each year, At Madison University, the study of the Bible will be made an elective. The only school in this country which has a four years' course in law is Yale. . At Harvai d there are r 712 stud-nts and . 17 instructors, according to the late catalogue. Secretary Bayard has received the degree of LL D. from Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth An English university has invited John L. Sullivan to give an exhibition before its students,. Oxford, consisting of twenty. one colleges and five halls, is the largest university in the world. Dr. P. H. Mell, Chancellor of the Univer sity of Georgia, has died, leaving a vacancy hayd to fill. According to the new catalogue of Harvard there are 1007 students in attendance at that in stitution. Helen A. Shafer, M. A,, Professor of Math ematics at Wellesley, has lately been app.)inte president of that institution. In Chicago there is 5. movement on foot to establish a college in ethical culture. $20,000 has been promised at the start. Nineteen thousand dollars are annually given at Armherst in prizes, and the income of too,- 000 is devoted to scholarships. U. S. Comptroller Dunham has presented the Urgent Deficiency bill containing an item of $573,000 for agricultural colleges and stations. At Cornell a number of students have organ ized themselves into, a Henry George club, the object of which is to investigate the theories of Henry George. Rev. Francis L. Patton, a Presbyterian divine of Mont Clair, N. j., and Professor of Geology at Princeton, will likely succeed Dr. McCosh to the presidency of Princeton. The first Chinese 'lawyer who ever practiced in America has lately been admitted to the New York bar. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 'the class 'of '76. • By . the will of the late 'William Hinton, of Boston, $50,000 was left to each of the colleges, Harvard, Amherst and Williams ; the money is to be used in the aid of poor young men in school.
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