Dartmouth has the credit of publishing the first college publication, Yale second, and Union third. Cornell has a lady student in the course in Mechanical Engineering, and Ohio Stiite Uni versity has one in Civil Engineering. The cane-rush at Rutgers was so roughly con tested that the police interfered and made off with the cane. johns Hopkins will probably be removed to Clifton, just outside of Baltimore, in accordance with the will of its founders. Amherst has sent out 200 College Professors and Presidents, and twenty Judges of the Supreme Isaac V. Williams, of Philadelphia, has given $3,000,000 to establish an industrial college in that city, similar to Girard College. During the last five years the number of in structors at Cornell has been increased .from 51 to 84, and the number of student's from 461 to i zoo. A Professorship of Physical Culture with an endowment of sio,ooo is to be established at Am herst in memory of Henry Ward Beecher. The present Freshman class at Lafayette is the oldest in the college, and can claim more whiskers, beards and mustaches than all the other classes put together. The University of Pennsylvania has in process of erection, what will be the finest library building in the U. S, It will cost when completed slBo, 000. Its capacity will be about 750,000 volumes. Prof. Webster of Rochester, has been chosen President of Union College. As an expression of approval of the choice the students voted to cut recitations for one week, immediately after his election. Among the scholars of all nations who were honored by the doctors' degree from the Uni versity of Bologna, the oldest university in the world, were the following Americans : 'James Russell Lowell, David Dudley Field, Professor Adams and Professor Agassiz. THE FREE LANCE. Co-operative college government, which prom ised so well at first, is not likely to be a success. The student conference committee at Princeton has resigned, and the Amherst senate has shown such vacillation that the difficulties in college disci pline have greatly multiplied. The system is likely to be discontinued. The following is a list of the " yells " of the principal colleges in the United States : Harvard.—Rah, rah, rah ; Rah, rah, rah ; Rah, rah I Harvard I ! Yale.--Rah, rah, rah; Rah, rah, rah; Rah, rah, rah I Y-ale I I Columbia.—Rah, Rah, Rah ! C-o-1-u-m-b-i-a I I Dartmouth.—Wah, 1-Too, Wah ! Wah, Rah Dar-d-d Dartmouth ! I Tiger. Princeton,—Rah, Rah, Rah; S s-s t, Boom, Ah-h-h ! I Rutgers.—Rah, Rah, Rah ; Bow-wow-wow 1 I Union..—Rah, Rah, Rah ; Union, Hikah, Hi kab, Hikah ! Williams.—Will-iams, Will-iams, Will-yums, yams, yams I Williams 1 University of Vermont.—Rah, Rah, Rah ; Rah, Rah, Rah; U. V. M. Rah, Rah I ! ]3owdoin.—B-o-w-d-o-i-n I Rah, Rah, Rah 11 1 I yell, yell, yell! Cornell!! Hamilton.—Rah, Rah, Rah ; Ham-il-ton, Zip, Rah, Boom !I Amherst —Rah, Rah, Rah, Amherstia Wesleyan.—Rah, rah, rah, rah; Wes-ley-an-a; Rah, rah, rah I 1 Madison.—Zip, rah, Mad; Zip, Rah, Mad; Zip, rah, Madison New York University.—Rah, rah, rah, N.Y.U.; Siss, Boom, ah Lafayette.—Hoo-rah, hoo-rah, hoo-rah ! Tiger, Lafayette 1
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers