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
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