President Cleveland has promised' to be present at the commencement of Cornell this year. The students of Syracuse University have start ed a new bi weekly called The University News. Out of goo students attending the University of New York 650 are in the medical department. Dickinson College has a new gymnasium whose equipment worth $4,000 is the gift of C. Al lison. The Alumni of Brown University propose to provide the institution with a gymnasium to cost $30,000. The graduates of the Universityof Toronto pro pose to give the University a gymnasium worth $25,000. The Review, published at Oxford, is the only college paper in England published by under graduates. The class of 'BB of Princeton will probably present the institution with a life size statue of Pres. McCosh. The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided that college students of legal age may vote in college towns. There are . 12 American students in attendance at Oxford,•6oo in the University of. Berlin, and over zoo at Leipzig, Johns Hopkins will not confer a degree upon one of its students until he has undergone an ex amination in gymnastics. $50,000 has been given to Phillips Academy, Andover, by Mr. William Hilton for the benefit of the theological department. Prof. Harrison E. Webster of Rochester Uni versity . has been elected to the 'presidency of Union College, Scheneetedy. The degree of LL, D. has been conferred upon Secretary of State Bayard by Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth in quick succession. Union College has not had a president for four years. The students have threatened to withdraw en masse if some one is not chosen to fill the chair before the end of this term. Johns Hopkins University publishes seven mag azines, three of which are devoted to local Uni versity interests while the others are devoted to Mathematics, Chemistry, Philology, Biology, His tot:), and Political Science respectively. THE FREE LANCE. Since the opening of Vassar College the in crease of chewing gum used in America is repre sented by $BOO,OOO money value per year. The California Legislature has provided its State University with a permanent income by laying a tax for its. support. About sBo,ooo will be the income this year. Cornell will begin the issue of a monthly mag azine on April rsth. The staff will consist of students and members of the faculty. The month ly will be called The Cornell Mrgazine. L. D. Wishard is about to go abroad to strength en Y, M. C. A's established in Missionary Col leges. There are (14) fourteen of these associa tions in Ceylon, Syria, India, China and Japan. The following is a significant joke at least— we clip from an exchange: A Michigan farmer has written to the faculty of . Yale " What are your terms for a year? And does it cost anything extra if my son wants to learn to read and write as wall as to row a boat? " The trustees at Lincoln. College recently es tablished a rule prohibiting the young ladies and gentlemen from attending the same literary so cieties. The students refused to obey and seven ty-five were suspended. Only eight of those re maining attended classes next day. Dr. McCosh says of Dr. Patton, president elect of Princton " I consider Dr. Patton the ablest defender of the .faith in this country. He is fully master of ever department of philosophy. He is an excellent teacher, unfolding his views with great point and precision. Personally he is much liked, and his views of education are by no means narrow or sectarian,but are enlarged and liberal.' —With this issue our duties as exchange editor cease. Some "other man " will in the future find it his pleasant duty to peruse the pages of our worthy exchanges We have found our task worthy of whoever would work with the con sciousness of being engaged in an employment of dignity. The better we become acquainted with our exchanges the more we feel in sympathy with them and the more we are ready to listen to their opinions and pleas. Also, the more we are associated with our many sister journals the more we are impressed with that enterprise and earnest character of them which we believe is raising them toward the worthy office of dictator and index of college forms and reforms. In performing the I=lll EXCHANGE
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