The De Pauw contest has been compromised,
The University will receive over a million of
dollars.
In a prize debate at Princeton, in which all
the classes were represented, a freshman won the
prize.
The faculty at Yale are attempting to put a
stop to cane rushes by bribing the Freshman with
a holiday.
Yale h is considering the subject of sending
their boat crew to England to row with Oxford
and Cambridge.
One of the editors ofthe Dariniouth has in ,
process of immediate publication a volume of his
college poems.
Ex-President White, of Cornell, has been
chosen to succeed Dr. Asa Gray as regent the
Smithsonian Institute.
The Renssellaer Polytechnic Institute at
Troy, N. Y„ was founded in 3824 and has 755
graduates living.
The right to publish the programme of the
Intercollegiate athletic association was sold to a
New York firm for $525,
The yearly boat race between Cambridge
and Oxford took place on March 24th, Cam.
bridge won by five lengths,
By an act of the Virginia Legislature a nor
mal,' school is to be established which will sup
plant William and Mary college,
Before the war 17 per cent of Harvard . men
came from the south, now only:3 per cent come
from the same section of country.
It is reported that the Harvard alumni are
circulating a petition asking the Faculty to allow
the nine to play with professional teams.
Three hundred thousand dollars has been
subscribed for the building of a Christian Univer
sity at Nankin, China, by some unknown Amer
ican.
The Sophomores•at the U. of P. threaten to
break up the commencement of the Medics next
May, unless the bowl which was captured at the
last bowl fight be returned.
The. senior class at Cornell intends to give
the University Athletic Association a cinder track
instead of the usual class meniorial. The ground
will be given by the University.
THE FREE LANCE.
Co-education has been abolished at Adel•
Bert College, The fifteen young ladies now
in attendance will be• allowed to finish their
course, but no more girls will be received,
There are 2,619 female graduates from
American colleges ; 998 are married; 948 teach
school. Of the remainder, 133 earn wages at
various occupations and professions, while 529
earn no wages at all.
The, Institutes of Technology will establish
during the corning summer a school either in the
coal regions of Pennsylvania or in the iron re
pions of Michigan, in order to give the students
of the mining departments practice in the work
of the mines,
The class of 'BB will be the largest class that
ever graduated from Cornell and the class of '9l
is the largest that ever entered. The former
numbers tit and the latter 350. Ten foreign
countries are represented and almost every state
in the union. just ten per cent are ladies.
Nearly all the German Universities have large
endowments, and yet the State budget each year
gives them large sums of money. The university
of Leipsig for instance, is more than five hundred
years old and owns much real estate in the city.
The Saxon Government, however, gives it every
year about $400,000.
--We wish to compliment the Dickinson/an
on its new cover. It presents quite a neat and
attractive appearance. Ow• plain clad paper has
to do without a new Easter bonnet this spring.
—We are in receipt of the Bales Student.
This is the first time it has come to us, and we en
joy it greatly. It has good sound editorials and
an excellent local department. We hope it will
come often.
--Here are "those ladies" again with their
Fharetra. We clip the following from an editor
ial on the College Girl : "The college girl is a
hard worker. We do not believe that the "men,"
as they call themselves at boy's colleges, study
half so hard as she does, or learn half so much.
They cannot do so if they cloud their brains with
cigarette smoke." Quite sarcastic, isn't it ?
Ciowelilan for March contained two
excellent articles entitled, Why am I a Republi
can ? and, Why am I a Democrat ? We think
the latter shows a little more partisanship than
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