All our representative colleges have their ball teams in regular training. All of Harvard's base ball nine have returned to college this year, with two exceptions. There is a movement on foot to establish a Chair of Irish at the University of Peru. The number of Irish in the country demands such. The students of Williams are taking measures to raise $200,000 for a chapter house, to be used in common by the fraternities represented in the college. The members of the Yale team, who will return to college next year, are Heffelfinger, McClung, Barbour, Lewis S. Morrison, Crosby, Wallis and The number of American students reported as in attendance at the University of Berlin for the last semester is rB5, representing 7r of our colleges and 29 of our States. The President of the United States, four mem bers of the Cabinet, every member of the Supreme Court, 44 of 90 Senators and 164 of 232 Represent atives are college graduates. The "Copley" medal for 1890 has been award ed to Prof. Newcomb of Johns Hopkins Universi ty, by the Royal Society of London. This medal is yearly given to that man who has given the most valuable aid to scientific research during the year. It was first given to Benjamin Franklin. It is the highest honor ever attained by a scien tific man to receive this medal. The University Extension Plan, modeled on the English University Extension, has taken firm root in Pennsylvania and by the energy and efficiency of the committee in charge it has become an es tablished adjunct in educational work. President Andrews of Brown University is planning to in troduce the university extension movement in Rhode Island. The experiment will first be tried in Pawtucket where two courses will be begun in astronomy and botany. Most of the lectures will probably be given by Brown professors. THE FREE LANCE. The Spectator from Capitol University is a new addition to our list of exchanges. Though'not as large as many other college journals which come to us yet, in regard to contents it is the equal of many. It has about it in its editorial, exchange and indeed in all its departments an air of fairness and common sense which makes it a welcome visitor. The College Student, of Franklin and Marshall, publishes a very amusing description, copied from the Washington Post, of a game of foot ball be tween Yale and Princeton 5o years hence. It de scribes the rush line as composed of sluggers, the quarter backs armed with clubs, the halves with bowie knives, and the full backs with navy re volvers. An extract from the account will serve to give the reader a few ideas of the manner in which foot-ball will be played in the future. "Every one regretted the mortality, but it was wonderful sport. After the killed and maimed had been carried off—the former to the hearses waiting in line at the south end of the field, and the latter to the hospital close by—Gripes, of Princeton, substitute for Plunker, made a great run of the game. The ball being cleverly passed to him by Slugger Toodles, he dashed through the opposing rush line like an eel, notwithstand ing the fact that two or three Yale men came within an ace of stopping his career by the well known 'savatte' method, plunging on their hands and launching backward kicks at his head as he passed. Evading the club of the quarter-back with consummate skill in dodging, the Princeton boy received but a scratch or two from the bowie knives of the half backs and found himself in front of the Yale goal. Bopper and Fliske, the Yale full backs, discharged their navy revolvers at him point blank, but Gripes secured a touch down and in a few moments the ball sailed high up between the posts, and the game was won just as Gripes fell a corpse and the umpire shouted 'time I' EXCHANGES.
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