COLLEGE ORBIT.
Kansas has over seventy colleges,
At Wellesley twenty hours a week of recita
tions are required.
The students of Hobart College have adopt
ed the Oxford Cap and gown.
Only four per cent. of the seniors at Yale
take Latin and Greek electives.
For the winter term at the University of
Leipsig 3,288 students were matriculated.
"Fifteen years in the chapel of Yale col
lege," is a recent work of Noah Porter.
Vassar has received $20,000 for a new gym
nasium, which will be built this spring.
Wellesley boasts of a young lady so modest
that she gccs into another room to change her
mind..
One hundred and ninety-five of the lour
- hundred and seven members of Congress are col
lege graduates.
There is an epidemic of mumps in the Yale
freshman class ; seventeen men have them by ac
tual count.
President Patton, of Princeton, according to
Yale men, is a British subject who has never
sought naturalization in this country.
The Inter-collegiate Base Ball Association
has adopted the League rules, but will not give a
batsman his base if hit by a pitched ball. •
It is said that the scientific building now in
course of construction at the University of Wis
consin, will be the finest college building in the
world.
Here is the Harvard freshman's yell
Johnny get your gun,
Johnny get your gun,
Chipple get your hair eul,
Ninety-one.
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The Harvard Faculty has absolutely refused
any petition coming from the graduates in regard
to allowing the Harvard nine to play with pro
fessional teams. •
The athletic clubs of the Pacific coast are to
send a club East next September to compete with
college and eastern clubs for amateur athletic
championships,
Anthony Comstock recently addressed the
THE FRE
E LANCE.
students of Princeton on the methods of .tho So
ciety which he represented. His reception was
most enthusiastic.
The college Y. M. C. A. is represented in
nearly 300 institutions in the United States, Can
ada, Japan, India, Ceylon and Syria, and has a
membership of over TI,OOO students.
The trustees of Atlanta University have re
fused to comply with the law of the State which
forbids the co-education of whites and blacks and
thereby forfeit the State appropriation.
The senior class at Princeton has petitioned
the board of trustees to extend the administration
of Dr. McCosh to the day of its graduation.
They wish to have his name on their diplomas.
The students of Ann, Arbor have called a
meeting to consider the question of petitioning
the Legislature to prohibit the sale of intoxica
ting liquors within five miles of the university.
The...l:an/ow reports the theft from Professor
Knight, of the State University, of the entire
manuscript of his . History of Ohio, The thief is
supposed to be a student, but no trace of the
manuscript can be found.
The Faculties of German universities are
very severe, especially at Berlin. Not long ago
one hundred and eight students were stricken
from the rolls for ''lack of diligence." Of this
number forty-eight were foreigners.
The Dickinson freshmen constitute the col
lege police force. It is their duty to clear the
campus of all non-college boys, cows, goats, pigs,
mules, "ponies," or any other animal that may
intrude on its hallowed ground.
The advantages of co-education at Ohio
Wesleyan University are evident. A Member of
the class of 'B9 recently married a class mate
and they have settled down to pursue their studies
and matrimonial felicity at the same time,
Gordon Taylor Hughes, son of the Ameri
can consul at liirmingham, England, has won a
Cambridge scholarship, valued at $2,000. He
beat fifty one competitors, and is the first Ameri.
can student to win an English scholarship,
Amherst is the only college that has a bil
liard room attached to its gymnasium. Statistics
concerning the use of it are very interesting and
valuable. Since the opening of the college year,
freshmen have used the tables 44 per• cent. of the
time ; sophomores, 24 per cent.; juniors, 18, and
seniors 54 per cent.