The University of Cambridge has just conferred upon Prince Albert Victor, the degree of L.L. D. The students of Pennsylvania State College, have organized a German letter society, known as Fow Ipselon Tset. At Wesleyan, the students have an organization, known, as the “Corpse and Coffin Club.” A professorship, of Physical Culture, with an endowment of $50,000, is to be established, at Amherst College, as a memorial of Henry Ward Beecher The Yale Faculty, has refused permission to build a new tank in the gymnasium. A new library costing $150,000, has been given to the University of Vermont. A University has been founded in Rothenburg, Sweden, Yale has no chair of German, and no regular professor of German. The class of ’75 has decided no establish a new chair of Political Economy at Yale, teaching protectionist theories alone. The students of Tuskee, (Alabama,) Normal School, have just finished a three and a half story brick building, on which the students of the institution have done all the work, except putting on the tin roof. “Bric-a-kex-kex-, coals, bric-a-kex-kex, coals, coax, whu-op-, whu-op, whu-op, parabaloo, ’92,” is the class yell adopted by the Freshmen at Yale. The Catholic University, at Washington, will be dedicated October 6th ISS9. The Amherst papers, Lit and Student are discuss ing the question of “Compulsory attendance at Church and morning Chapel”. The discussion is carried on both by the students and professors, with the prospect that attendance on religious services, will continue to be required. Too bad. Vice-President elect Levi P. Morton is presi dent of the Board of Trustees of Hobart College, at Geneva. THE FREE LANCE Russell B. Harrison, the son of the President elect, is agrduate of Lafayette College, class of'74. Of the 1,494 convicts in Joliet Penitentiary, 129 are college graduates. Prof. Elliott, of Harvard, in a recent lecture on College Loyalty, denounces in strong terms the article which appeared in the North American Review upon the “Fast Set at Harvard.” Gen. Clinton B. Fisk has been offered, the Presidency of Dickinson College William and Mary'College, Virginia, has been opened as a State Normal School. England has only one college paper edited by the undergraduates, namely, The Review, Pub lished at Oxford. In our last issue we quoted a sentence from the article entitled “Optional attendance at Chapel”. Published in the November edition of The College Student. The December number of this-admirable Journal contains a reply, in which the writer makes a strong plea for compulsory attendance at chapel, showing how' “the true idea of freedom can only be relized within the domain of law,” and how “the mere law requiring attendance at chapel, therefore, cannot be said to be in conflict with the idea of freedom.” We would like to quote more, showing how the writer at length finds “a sufficient justification for the compulsory law,” but space will not permit. The arguments used are altogether very pursuasive yet not convincing, and we shall look with eagerness toward the receipt of your next issue, hoping to find the subject discussed more perfectly. The nineteenth century student desires preoption in his chapel and religious services as well as in his studies. The University Courant's Christmas edition is decidedly interesting from beginning to end. The literary articles are short; nevertheless the best of goods do not always come in large bundles. “Colleges in Russia” we are reading with eager ness. Truly we should rejoice that ours is a land of EXCHANGES
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers