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