'9O. D. C. Reber is now engaged in business in Schuylkill Haven. '9l. H. D. Meek is now clerking for the Carnegie Iron Company, and is situated at their Scotia Works. His Excellency Governor Beaver, one of the Board of Trustees of our cellege, paid us a short visit recently. 89. C. G. Roop is now at Timber City, where he has accepted the position of princi pal in a newly established school. COLLEGE ORBIT. In the village of Strobeck, Russia, the pupils in the highest grade in the schools are obliged to pass a yearly examination in chess. An Oratorical contest league has been formed, composed of the following colleges : The Western University, Allegheny College, Geneva, Thiel, Grove City, Washington and Jefferson and Westminster. Students are ranked on a scale of 4 at Yale. The highest rank ever given a student is 3,73, which grade was received by the valedictorian of the class of 'BB, The New Jersey Legislature has taken action so that Rutgers will receive sixty new scholarships. It is stated, that although the college men in the United .States are only a fraction of one per cent of the voters, yet they hold more than fifty per cent of the highest offices. The University of Penn Sylvania catalogue, just published, gives a total number of students at 1,302. THE FREE LANCE. A Law school has been established in con nection with Dickinson College. One hundred and seventy-five out of three hundred and sixty-five colleges in the United States, publish college papers. Blaine is the only college graduate in Har- rison's cabinet. The Dartmouth seniors have decided not to have any class-day or other social festivities on their graduation. The total receipts of the Yale-Princeton foot ball game on Thanksgiving Day were $15,254- .50. The Foot-Ball Association received as Princeton's share of the proceeds $5,604. The young ladies at Swarthmore are among the best supporters of athletics in the college. They are always ready to contribute to the organizations among the college men, and subscribe liberally for all athletic under takings. An effort is being made to form a foot-ball league of John Hopkins, Swarthmore Colum bia and Haverford. In glancing over the exchanges which come to us each month, one is at a loss to express definitely the object of the exchange depart ment, That it is desirable to have such a de partment is evident from the fact that very few college journals are considered complete without it. Just what this department should contain seems to be entirely a matter of in dividual interpretation. To one it is nothing more than a medium of acknowledging the receipt of the various journals received during EXCHANGES.
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