Tabulated statistics would show that Harvard is growing faster than any other University in the country. Four college dailies are now in circulation. Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Cornell cash pub- lisp one There arc 583 men in the Law school of the University of Michigan and 360 in the same de partment at Harvard. Harvard and Yale have both been obliged to in crease the number of their faculties this year, Har vard by eight, and Yale by five. Cornell during the past year, through the en ergy of President Adams and an active Board of Trustees, has received endowments amounting to $1,557,000. Amherst has done away with the tug of war—a contest universally conceded to be injurious. Har vard is opposed to it, but will not withdraw her team as long as the event stands. The first of the twelve pillars of Whig and Clio halls at Princeton arrived some time ago. They weigh eleven tons each, and are the largest single pieces of marble ever quarried in this country. They came from the quarries, belonging to Secre tary of War Proctor, in Vermont. "Prof. K T. McLaughlin, Professor of Litera ture at Yale, h 1; concluded to abolish the writing of compositions by the Sophomore Class. Between the enterprising New York firm, which 'furnishes essays on any required subject for $3, and a mem ber of the class who wields a facile pen, for rev cum!, the essay writing has becoMe a farce." The Yale Glee and Banjo Club have planned an extensive trip through the West and the South dur ing the Christmas holidays. The Glee Club will be composed of twenty-one men and the Banjo Club of twelve. They will give concerts in Pitts blrg, Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago, Dubuque, St. Louis, Nashville, Atlanta, Savannah, and Charleston. THE FREE LANCE. The athletic facilities at Yale are being greatly increased by the laying out of a third foot-ball field and the lengthening of the track. The English Cricket team captained by Lord Hawke has returned to England. During their visit they won six games, lost one, and played one draw game. At a recent meeting of the faculty of Lehigh University it was decided to charge a tuition fee of $ tco per annum after January ist, 1892. Free tuition has been in vogue, but increased attend ance necessitated a change. The plan of instruction in the new University of Chicago is very unique. There will be no vaca tion and the year will be divided into four terms of twelve weeks each, A "lower college" will consist of the Freshman and Sophomore classes and a "higher college" of the Senior and Junior. —Ex. The University of Chicago has bought the stock of Calvary & Co., the well known Berlin dealers in old books, forming a library of 280,000 volumes and 120,000 dissertations in all languages. Among these are 130,000 volumes of Greek and Roman Archeology and classics, and 15,000 volumes of journals. 'Mrs. Hotchkiss has presented to the Board of Trustees of the Yale Preparatory School, of which she is the founder, the sum of $275,000 in cash. Of this sum $75,000 will be expended upon a build ing, and poo,ooo will be used as an endowment fund for professorships. In addition to this gift, Mrs. Hotchkiss has presented to the Trustees a tract of seventy-five acres of land. The plans for the grand stand to be used at the Yale-Harvard game, have been drawn up by a Springfield architect, and the contract has been awarded. Seats will be erected around the field, greatly increasing the seating capacity, but shut ting out coaches. The grand stand will be 500 feet long and 325 feet wide, with twenty-six rows of seats. A space fifty feet wide between the seats
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