There are 23 Japaness students at the Universi ty of Michigan, Gen. Clinton B. Fisk bequeathed $25,000 to Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. After January Ist the attendance of Columbia students at chapel will be made voluntary. Arthur Cumnock of Harvard received $5,000 from his father for winning the game with Yale. Out of 867 graduates of Vassar college, 315, or a little more than 36 per cent., have married. The Philips Exeter Seniors have elected H. C. \Vinton, a colored student, as their class day ora- McClung, '92, has been elected captain of the Yale foot ball eleven for the next season and Riggs captain of Princeton's team. In the last seven years Yale has played seventy eight games of foot ball, with a total score of 3,- 963 points to her opponent's 80. Harvard has 16,930 graduates of whom George Bancroft, the historian, a member of the class of 1817, is the oldest. The first college paper published in America was the Dar/month Gaze/le, which was founded in i Soo, to which Daniel Webster contributed. William Dudley FouHis, '69 of Columbia, was elected on Dec. Bth to the Presidency of Swarth more to fill vacancy made by the resignation of Dr. Edward H. Magill in 1889. The will of the late U. B. Fayerweather, of New York, gives $2,100,000 to 20 different col leges. Yale, Cornell and Columbia each receiv ed $200,000 and the others fron? $50,000 to $ roo,- 000 each. The expedition sent out from the University of Pennsylvania to the Bahamas and West Indies, tin der Professor Rothrock, in the yacht, White Cap, has been heard from. This course is under taken to get zoological, botanical and economical material for scientific study, and promises to be eminently successful. Already over one hundred THE FREE LANCE. zoological specimens have been collected and an equal number of botanical collections are in hand. The party have shot many birds, but among them not one that is to be found in North America.— Universiiy News. We acknowledge the receipt of a very u. , ;eful and convenient calendar from The Pope Mfg., Co., also the Census Bulletin from the Superin tendent of the Census. The Muhlenberg Monthly, which comes to us regularly, is a well edited Journal. The color of its cover however, wa do not think does justice to the rest of the paper. The literary depart ment, though small, is good, while the exchange, local and book review departments are also well su stained. The absence of an exchange department in the Washington and Jefferson is a noticeable defi ciency. S urely the Washington and Jeffersonian can afford to devote some of its space to such a department which is the only means of communi cation of critisisin among college papers. We notice also that the University Currant of Allege ny is deficient in this respect. The Christmas issue of the University News does great credit to Syracuse University, which it represents, as well as its board of editors. It contains pictures of their foot ball team and of their glee and banjo clubs with interesting ac counts of their work in the past year. We clip from one of the editorials what we think an ex cellent description of the work on the object of a college paper: The college journal is the mirror of under graduate sentiment, indicating to the Faculty the tone of student life and to the world the character of the college. It reflects both the moral and in tellectual condition of the institution from which it issues. Among the various colleges, it tends to promote friendship and to familiarize each with the instruction and government of the others. EXCHANGES.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers