The Yale observatory has an income of
$lOOO from Connecticut railroads for furnish
ing them with the official time.
James Russell Lowell is to fill the new lec
tureship in poetry at Johns Hopkins for the
present year.
Harvard has withdrawn from the Inter-col
legiate Foot-ball League. Her action is re
ceiving much unfavorable comment.
Prof. Rowland, of Johns Hopkins, is the
third American to be elected a member of the
Royal Scientific Society of London.
The University of Michigan has done away
with the marking system, and has abolished
all prize competition and class honors.
Hereafter Amherst men must make up con
ditions before the first Saturday of the Fall
term or be rated as specials in the catalogue.
President Gates, of Rutgers, is investigat
ing the recent cane rush and is determined
to put a stop to such practices and punish the
offenders.
President Garfield’s sons, Irwin and Abram
are both players on the Freshman foot-ball
eleven at Williams. One of them was a sub
stitute and played against Yale a few weeks
The next meeting of the New England col
lege presidents will be held at Middletown,
with President Raymond, of Wesleyan, in
the chair.
It is stated that one man in 5000 takes a
college course in England; one in 615 in
Scotland ; one in 313 in Germany, and one in
2000 in the United States.
Harvard has elected a resident graduate as
athletic treasurer to handle the large funds
devoted to athletics, Harvard’s athletic ex
penses were over $30,000 last year.
Final examinations. Here they are in a
nutshell: A final examination is the concen
trated essence of trickery and malicious mean
ness, the bane of the honest worker, the hope
of the habitual flunker.
THE FREE LANCE.
“In these days” of athletics, when so
much depends upon the choice of a referee,
we think some points given in an editorial in
the Dickinsonian would be of great benefit in
making a choice. In speaking of a remedy
for the many evils now existing it says : “We
would recommend that each college select a
man of undoubted integrity and moral stamina
to act as official referee. Let it be this offi
cer’s special care to acquaint himself thor
oughly with the rules of the game and their
interpretation in doubtful cases, as deter
mined by previous decisions, If the official
referee is carefully selected, and if he consci
entiously applies himself to the duties of his
office, there is no reason why a game should
not be played with the greatest possible har
mony and good will.”
The Hesperian of Lincoln, Neb., comes to
our sanctum for the first time. While the'
front cover is not so inviting as many of out
exchanges, yet the inside matter is such a
treat as to make up for this deficiency.
The “Editorial Notes” and “Current Com
ment ” are strongly written and to the point.
If I were a man —but I am not, and would
not be if I could. I am well satisfied in
being quite— Othenvisc.
EXCHANGES,
A TIP.
The liihle to all architects
Doth urge this wise command
Go build your house upon the rocks.
And not upon the sand;
Hut
In building up a character,
Which shall withstand all shocks
Of life, —go build upon your “ sand,”
And not upon your “ rocks.”
A PROPOSAL.
“ Oil, Myrtle,” he said, “ I love you,—
With a bursting heart I love you,
Without you life to me is naught!
Oh ! bid me not from thee depart,
Do not wound my aching heart,
Dearest, won’t you share my lot?”
Then he listened for her answer,
I .istened for her fateful answer.
From her troubled face, he busk'd
In the hope—yes, fondly hoped
Acceptance, when her lips she ope'd,
“ What’s it worth n foot?” she asked.
Yah A't'foi't/,
'J’he Dar! wont ft.