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
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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."
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