*93* E. J- Pratt is in the employ of the Chester Steel Co., Chester, Pa. ’93 M. E. Benson is in the draughting offiice of Stuckert, the Phila, architect, at 3th and Wal- nut streets. ’93. B. Elliott is in the passenger department of the Reading R. R. offiice, 4th and Chestnut Sts., Phila. ’BB. George Mckee is filling the position of instructor of higher Mathematics and Physics in the Public Schools of Seattle, Washington. During the early part of October, Prof. M. W. Bohn spent a few days with frienes about the Col lege. Prof. C. F. Reeves is located at Allentown, N, J., not Trenton, as stated in our last issue. Mr. J. H. Root, ’9O of Cornell, has accepted the position of assistant instructor of Mathemat- ics in our institution. Six members of our Y. M. C. A. expect to at tend the State Convention at Danville, Pa., on Oct. 23rd to 26th. COLLEGE ORBIT. The National University at Tokio Japan en rolls 50000 students. Out of 500 applicants only 126 men were ad mitted to Lehigh this fall. Yale has received $200,000 by the will of the lateT. C. Sloane. The freshmen class at Princeton numbers 262 and is the largest in the history of that institu- A law department has been added to Dickin son college which will be inaugurated Oct. Ist. The Cornell faculty has decided to discontinue the course in Journalism which has been given there for several years past. The trustees of Lehigh University have voted the college a new physical labotory to cost $lOO,- THE FREE LANCE. The oldest college in the world is the Moham medan college at Cairo, Egypt, which was 1800 years old when Oxford was founded. The attempt to bring over a team of foot-ball players from Scotland to play the best American teams has failed. The board of overseers of Harvard have made seventeen the minimum age for admission, instead of nineteen Rochester, Hamilton, Union and Syracuse make up the foot-ball league of New York State this year. The University of the city of New York will hereafter admit women to the law course on the same conditions as men H. H. Stagg, Yales famous pitcher, has discon tinued his studies for the ministry and has been engaged as an atheletic expert by a Y. M. C. A. The New York Sun, of July Ist, contained the following statement: Ninty-four of our colleges have received in gifts during the past year $3,124,- 379, and the total endowments amount to $51,- 7<>5>449- The foot-ball season opens most auspiciously for Harvard. Nearly all of last year’s team are in college, while Yale has but six of her old players, and Princeton but five. A daily newspaper entitled the University of Michigan Daily has been started at the Universi ty of Michigan. The Princeton faculty have decided that no special student will be allowed to play on any university athletic team until after he has been in college two terms or one year. The University of Berlin, with its 6000 stu dents and scores of famous professors has a capital of but $730,000. Its largest endowment, that of the Countess Bose, is only $150,000. Neverthe less, it is the seat of the highest German learning, and blaims to have the ablest corps of instructors of all the world’s schools;
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