charge of the Drafting Department, Md. Centra
R. R. ; "90 H. W. Mitchell, Pittsburg, Pa.
COLLEGE ORBIT.
Foot ball in every form has been prohibited by
the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
There are about sixty candidates for the Prince
ton foot-ball team.
Of 389 colleges in the United States, 237 are
co-educational.
Princeton has 63 professors this year, 7 more
than last year
The University track athletic cup, annually
striven for by Yale and Harvard, is a trophy worth
$5OO, purchased by an alumni fund.
Northwestern University will have in the
neighborhood of 2,300 . students the coming
session.
The Williams• Freshman class numbers over a
hundred, Princeton over three hundred, and Har
vard four hundred.
Yale University will put $150,000 or $200,000
of its big bequest from the Fayerweather estate
into a new building for the Sheffield Scientific
School.
The late P. T. Barnum has left $40,000 to Tuft
College to found a Barnum Museum of Natural
History.
The Harvard and Yale elevens are both in
training. Harvard has seven of last year's team
and Yale eight.
Luther Cary, M. A. C., in the English cham
pionship games, won the too and 220 yard dashes.
At Paris all the events were captured by Ameri-
The Princeton Alumni will construct a new
athletic field in the memory of Frederick Brokaw,
who was drowned during the summer while at
tempting to rescue a woman from the sea.
THE FREE LANCE.
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At New York lately George Gray made a world's
record by putting the x 6 pound shot 46 feet 4
inches. J. S. Mitchell broke the record of the 16
pound hammer throw and placed it at 139 feet
2 inches.
The class of '9r, at Cornell, voted $5OO for the
establishment of a, student ward in Ithica Hospital,
to be known as the '9l Memorial Ward.
Trafford captains Harvard's foot-ball team,
McClung, Yale's, and Warren, Princeton's this
The library of the Chicago University contains
40,000 volumes, valued at $150,000. It is es
pecially noted for its unsurpassed collection of
biblical literature.
The faculty of Wooster college has adopted the
following resolution. "Resolved :—That here•
after no participation in inter-collegiate athletic
games and contests by students of the University
of Wooster shall be permitted."
Harvard has 365 . ,000 bound volumes in her
library ; Yale, 200,000 j Columbia, 90,000 ; Cor
nell, 15o,000; Dartmouth, 86,000; Bowdoin, 84,-
000 ; Syracuse, 75,00 o; and the University of
Virginia, 40,000.
The three-cornered race between Cornell, Co
lumbia, and the Univeisity of Pennsylvania was
won with great ease by Cornell. The time was
4 minutes, 27 seconds, thus making a new two
mile world's record.
LANCELETS.
I WHISPERED.
When pretty Bess so straight and tall,
With tenderest inflexion,
Confessed she loved me best of all,
"Truth is stranger than fiction." .
For I have found it an untruth,
An utter fabrication,
"Yes, with that pretty girl forsooth,
'Truth is stranger than fiction,' ot