'92. J, P. McCreary, supervisor of the Tyrone
and Clearfield branch of the P. R. R. ,while directing
the unloading of some plate girders, at the bridge
over Moshannon creek, near Osceola, Pa., was
struck by a girder weighing five thousand pounds
and suffered a compound fracture of the the left
leg near the ankle. He is at present doing well
with every prospect of a speedy recovery.
'9l. C. M. Green, collector for Hughes and
Gauthrope, of Pittsburg, was at the college on
January ist. His address is No. 417 Pennsylva
nia avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.
On the evening of December 31, Miss Cather
ine D. Price was married to Rev. ‘Villiam N.
Hubbell, of Mt. Clair, N. J. The ceremony took
place in the Upland Baptist church, of Chester.
COLLEGE 01111B17:
There are one hundred and ninety college pa
pers puLlished in the United States.—Ex.
The Lehigh register for 1891 and 1892, shows
an attendance of 527 students, 39 of whom are
post graduates
President Scott, of Rutgers college, lectured
the students on cane-rushing and said a repetition
of the offense meant expulsion.
Princeton has added six new professors to her
faculty this year, the University of Pennsylvania
ten, Yale five and Harvard eight.
The total expense 3 of the victorious foot ball
eleven at Andover, for the past season, amounted
to $1,963.42. The receipts, on the other hand,
amounted to $2,010.62.
A committe representing Columbia college and
the college of the city of New York, has been ap
pointed to make arrangements to unite, if possi
ble, those two institutions of learning.
The Alumni of Dartmouth have agreed to make
an athletic field, rebuild the gymasium, and aid
in the support of all athletic teams, if the faculty
will allow them to have control in athletic mat
ters.
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LANCE.
An examination in gymnastics is now required
of undergraduates of Johns Hopkins before a de
gree is conferred.
The Freshmar class of the college department
of the University of Pennsylvania has fixed its
class clues at one dollar per term.
Eton, or the collection of schools which con
stitute what is popularly known as Eton, has a
thousand scholars. This great preparatory school
has just celebrated its four hundred and fiftieth an
niversary.
The organization of an athletic club in New
York, with a membership limited wholly to college
graduate:s, has been talked of for some time, but
nothing definite accomplished. Lately the mat
ter has been taken up by those who arc anxious
to push the prOposal, and announcements will Fro
bably be made in the near future.
The Yak baseball club has received, from the
Boston League club, a challenge to a series of
games to be played in Apiil next. The proposi
tion is to play the first game at Boston, on Fast
day, the opening clay of the season there, and the
remainder of the series, probably four games, on
the Yale field. The Yale men will accept the of
fer.—ES.
A new course of study has been established by
the Harvard faculty which will lead to a degree of
S.B. The course is intended primarily for those
who wish to devote themselves especially to physi
cal culture. The curriculum is a broad one, and
those who expect to take up the study of medicine
will find this new course a useful aid to their pre
paratory study.
Professor Blackie, who stands prince among the
Greek scholars of Great Britain, in an article in
the Independent, discounts classical studies. He
cares very little for Greek or Latin on the philol
ogical or grammatical side. He believes as Milton
did, in studying the classics for what is in them,
and he believes that Greek and Latin are not half
so important as French ot German.