The many friends of Lieut. S. S. Pague will be pleased to learn that he again takes up his residence in the East. The Lieutenant's regiment leaves Fort Buford and makes its headquarters at Newport Barracks, Ky., opposite Cincinnatti. COLLEGE ORBIT There are 190 college papers in the United States A fencing club has been organized at Columbia. Bancroft, the historian, is the senior alum nus of Harvard. Ann Arbor has two hundred and forty two courses of study. The total membership of the Greek letter societies is about 75,000. The Yale nine has arranged thirty-three games for the coming season. Brown, Union and Princeton, each offer a prize for the best college song. Brown University is to have, after April 1, a new periodical to be called the Brown Liter ary Magazine. The Junior Ball at Columbia, netted $9OO, of which $7,00 has been given to the college athletic association. Only ten per cent, of Cornell's graduates have been women, yet they have over sixty per cent. of the fellowships. The dimensions of Vassar's gymnasium are 57 by 45 feet. There is a swimming pools in the rear 45 feet long and 25 wide. Brazil with a population of fourteen million has no college worthy the name. Graduates there fail to pass higher than a Prep. class here. THE FREE LANCE. Under the system of voluntary prayers at Harvard, there is an average attendance at morning chapel of 250 out of a body of 1,200 students in college proper. The Columbia college library is said to be the best managed in the world. Writing ma terials are furnished for the visitors, and light meals are supplied to students who are too busy to leave their work. American college papers exhibited at the Paris Exposition, excited great interest in foreign education. Undergraduate journalism is practically unknown in Europe, there being but one college paper in England. The University of Oxford, England, has decided to admit to its honor examinations without further conditions all women "who are graduates of colleges in the American association of collegiate alumna;. The $600,000 given by Mr. J. D. Rocke feller with other subscriptions and the gift of ten acres of land, valued at sloo,ooo by Mr. Marshall Field,. of Chicago, complete the one million dollars desired for the pro jected Chicago University. The faculty of the University of Texas has made the following rule as to examina tions :—" Students whose recitation marks average ninety and whose attendance is ninety-four per cent. shall be.allowed to pass to the next higher class or to graduation without examinations." The trustees of John Hopkins, recently passed a resolution to the effect, that an undergraduate publication was undesirable and forbidding the publication of any news paper by any one connected with the institu tion, The resolution was called forth by a recent effort to start an undergraduate paper,
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