thefailure of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
to pay dividends on stock owned by that in
stitution. One hundred thousand dollars will
be raised by private subscription to meet im
mediate wants.
At last Oberlin has a college yell.
Hiram College has no fraternities and does
not want any. The literary societies are do
ing excellent work.
Lafayette has forty-two candidates for po
sitions on the ball nine.
Last year Michigan graduated twenty-four
young ladies from her law department.
It will be a gredt consolation for some to
know that Beecher passed through Amherst
with an average of 58 per cent.
It is impossible to find out who are mem
bers of Omega Pi, the new local society at
Columbia.
A new feature in training the Harvard ball
team is the stopping of ground balls and
throwing at a mark.
Attendance at recitations is optional at
Harvard, Cornell, Ann Arbor and Johns
Hopkins.
The Swarthmore tug-of-war team has be
gun to train.
The Senior classes of Williams and Muhlen
berg colleges have decided to abolish class day
exercises in connection with their commence-
ments.
Three of President Harrison’s cabinet are
college graduates : James G. Blaine, of Wash
ington and Jefferson College ; John W. Noble
of Yale, and Attorney General Miller, of
Hamilton.
Sixteen prominent American colleges are
without presidents.
Johns Hopkins publishes seven magazines:
one devoted to mathematics, one to chemistry,
one to philology, one to biology, one to hi
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storical and .political sciences, and three of
local interest.
Of the 1400 students in Michigan Uni
versity, President Angell states that the par
ents of 502 are farmers, 271 merchants, 93
lawyers, 83 physicians, 52 manufacturers or
mechanics, and 61 clergymen, and that 45
per cent, belong to the class who gain their
living by manual labor.
By the death of Charles J. Hull, of Chicago,
Oberlin College has come into possession of
$55,000 in policies of insurance on his life,
which were, made payable to the college.
Dr. Hull was a wealthy gentleman who had
made his money by opportune investments
in the South soon after the war. His estate
is valued at $4,000,000.
Wellesley College has received from Amos
W. Stetson, of Boston, a fine collection of
paintings, sixty-five in number, as a gift. The
value of these is $30,000.
Chauncey Depew will deliver the oration at
the commencement of the Yale Law School.
The New Haven professional team has tried
to secure Bates, the Harvard pitcher, but has
failed in their effort.
Each member of the Champion Yale Eleven
may choose between a gold watch charm in
the form of a football, and a cameo ring with
a raised football of red, as a championship
trophy.
The Harvard nine last year had a surplus
of $3650.
The Faculty of Lafayette has decided not
to permit the cane-rush.
Twenty editors of the four Harvard papers
gave themselves a joint dinner.
The University of Michigan chapter of
Delta Kappa Epsilon is having a handsome
stone chapter house built.