Carey, Princeton, '93, lowered the world's
amateur record for 75 yards, May 9th, from
7 21-3 seconds to 7 3-5•
At the recent athletic meeting between Yale
and Harvard, Finlay threw the hammer a distance
of toB feet 5 inches.
The Princeton freshmen passed resolutions
against hazing next year. Their action is gener
ally approved.
The grand stand on Amherst's new athletic
grounds is one of the finest in the country and
cost $9OOO.
The Ohio State University will hereafter re
ceive from the State an annual appropriation of
$lOO 000.
The total receipts realized from the play of
Antigone at Yale amounted to $5,000, of which
sum about $2,000 was net profit.
About 1400 members of Cambridge University
have signed resolutions protesting against the
a ?mission of women to the University.
• A campus containing about seventy thousand
acres, with driveway seventeen miles in length, is
connected with the new Lelend Stanford Univer
sity at Palo Alto, Cal,
The annual report of President Eliot, of Har
vard, announces that hereafter the professors of
that institution will receive $4,500 a year, and as
sistant professorg $3,000.
The new athletic grounds of Columbia College
are large enough to enclose a football and base
ball field, tennis courts and tracks. The grand
stand will hold over i,600 people. The lower
part of the grand stand is to be used for dressing
rooms, baths, bowling alleys and a ladies' waiting
The University of Michigan has issued a new
calender showing a total attendance of 2420 stu
dents. The annual rate of increase in the number
of students during the first three years has aver
aged thirteen per cent. The faculty now num
bers r 33, an increase of seventeen since last year.
r4 p ooo copies of the calendar are issued.
tHE FitEE LANCE.
The recent issue of the Lehigh Barr contains a
very good editorial on the unfairness of final ex•
aminations, from which we clip the following :
"It would be interesting to know by what
means the professor or instructor determines how
much a man should be able to do in a specified
time. If we take the daily recitations as a crite
rion, then the examination standard is that of the
smartest, not of the average man, for surely half
an hour is less than the usual time for working a
problem in the class room, and in the examina•
tions in mathematics work 'equivalent to ten
problems is expected to be completed within a
nominal four hours, and it has been stated re
peatedly that only by continuous writing, with
out a moment for thought, could the entire ground
be covered.
By the distribution of a few days' lessons over
the whole term more time would remain at the
end before examinations. With a little more
thought on the subject, only a fair number of
questions would be required. These suggestions
are a year in advance, but they derive their force
from present facts, and a change in the direction
suggested would meet with general approval and
tend to make the examinations what they are
designed to be, and, we are glad, their nun
test of every man's knowledge, with the trotto' of
a 'a fair field with no favor."
The Delaware College Review, after a long ad
sence, comes to us in its old time good form.
"Self Control" is the subject of a very fine arti
cle, from which we take the following :
"To be silent is not to be churlish. Idle speech
adds nothing to knowledge, nor embellishes
thought, but it takes away from us that respect
which it is our right to exact from others. It can
not be but that silence is the guard to prosperity.
Have aught in your mind which you would do,
and tell it; another will profit by your communica-
EXCHANGES.