The seventeen universities of Italy have opened their doors to the co-eds ; likewise have the higher institutions of learning in Switzerland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The record for the 100 yard dash was recently broken by Kettleman, of Yale, time, nine and three-fourth seconds. Columbia College will not put a base-ball nine in the field this year. Ex-President Hayes will deliver a series of lectures at Oberlin on Political Economy. Seventy-four thousand dollars have been appropriated for the use of the Ohio State University for the coming year, 540,000 of which are to be devoted to the erection of a laboratory. A department of “ Marine Engineering,” has been established at the University of Michigan l Yale has sent out 13,444 students. A fine library is to be built at Madison University, to cost $lOO,OOO. The valedictorian of last year’s senior class at Rutgers was a colored man. The faculty of Harvard has requested the pitcher of the Harvard base-ball nine, not to pitch until he has learned his lessons. Yale is agitating the question of a “ kick- ing cup.” The chairs of the Edinburgh Medical Fac ulty are each worth $17,000 a year. THE P REE LANCE. The students at Lehigh have decided to wear the cap and gown regularly on Sundays. De Pauw University, of Indiana, has been presented with a gift of $2,000,000. A WELL PLAYED AND INTERESTING GAME, The Dickinson Club made its first appear ance here to-day and, although it played good ball in evey inning except the third, it lost the game. At exactly 10.13 the game was called and Dickinson having won the toss, chose the field while our club sent McLean to the bat, who took his base on balls and was advanced to third by scratch hits by Musser and Mock, but was left there as Brew retired the side. For Dickinson Davis led off with a strike out, was followed by Patton’s out at first; Smith took his base on a scratch and scored on a steal and a scratch by Palmer. Hauck went out on strikes. In the second Ellen berger led off with a smashing hit to right, on which he scored, but the side went out on two strike outs and a fly before F. Musser, who had made a nice hit past second, could Our opponents were retired in the one, two, three order in their half. DICKINSON THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE, Saturday, May 18, 1889,
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