Cleveland president of their Eastern Alumnae Association. It is said that several colleges are about to try the plan of giving a holiday on Monday, in• stead of Saturday. 'Twenty•eight Democrats and five Republi cans make up the Senior law class at the Missouri State University. Prof. Peabody, of Harvard, says that the growth of athletics has tended to improve the general tone of the college. The University of Pennsylvania is being pretty generally and severely criticised foe her treatment of visiting ball teams. Ninety-two of Yale's graduates have become college presidents, the president of Pennsylvania State College being one of the number, Dr. Sargent, of Harvard, has offered a prize to the college man whose form is nearest perfect physical symmetry after two years' training. Of the graduates of Yale, two hundred and three have been named Smith, one hundred and eight Williams, one hundred and three Clark, and eighty Brown. In the United States one man in every two hundred takes a college course ; in Scotland, one in every six hundred ; in Germany, one in every two hundred and thirteen. The members of the Harvard nine have been ordered by their captain to attend morning prayers in the University in order to insure their keeping regular hours, The Dartmouth faculty have decided that the students must drop either base ball, foot ball or general athletics, because of the excessive amount of money required to conduct them all. Knox College has decided to dispense with graduation orations. Hereafter the chief event of Commencement day will be an oration by some distinguished orator and the conferring of degrees. One of the old landmarks of the Princeton campus was lately removed. The Bulletin Elm, which had reached a dangerous state of decay, was chopped down and the pieces carried off by the students as souvenirs.. President Cleveland is to be present at the Commencement of Cornell University. The students will greet him with a new yell. They LANCE. THE FRE have made such a racket practicing this that the authorities of the town of Ithica passed a law for bidding them giving their yell in the streets. Out of the eleven of. our best colleges, Princeton devotes the largest number of hours to Greek and Latin during the Freshman and Soph omore years ; Columbia to Mathematics ; Yale and Columbia to English ; Yale to German and French. A committee of the overseers of Harvard University have recommended that the faculty prohibit absolutely all inter-collegiate athletic contests. After a close investigation by the fac ulty, and in consideration of the petitions of the students, it was decided to table the motion with the understanding that it would be passed very soon if the conduct at games did not improve and the betting cease. At Amherst the examination system has been entirely abolished, and a series of written recita tions given at intervals throughout the term at the option of the professor, has been substituted instead. This order of things is highly satisfac tory to the students, and takes away the custom of cramming, which examinations held at long intervals are sure to foster. Class honors at the end of the course are awarded in accordance with the total average grade of a student for the whole four years' course. The Academedian from Washington Academy, presents a neat appearance ; but we don't like the style of your editorials. We think you could greatly improve this department by taking subjects relating directly to your institu tion. —We always welcome the Ursinus Collexe Bulletin. We wish you had an exchange de partment. Being closely connected by an associa Lion we should greet each other occasionally, but this is rather a difficult task when you have no column through which it is possible to exchange greetings. —The late edition of the Press and Prink/- contained a splendid article on " advice to young writers," written by C. A. Dana. Among other suggestions he says " The first rule of good writing is to use always the simplest and plainest words. Above all, avoid affectation, and the worst affectation of all is the affectation of wit." EX CHANGE
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