COLLEGE ORBIT.
Woodcock will captain the Lehigh Base Ball
Team this year.
Lensing '92 has been elected captain of the Uni
versity base ball team.
Cornell gives $65,000 every year in scholarships
and other aids to needy and deserving students.
Twenty•two thousand dollars have been sub
scribed to found an infirmary at Yale University.
On Nov, 28th. Brown dedicated lnr new $67,-
000 gymnasium, to be known as the Lyman Me
morial.
The igroo,ooo needed to secure the admission
of women to the Johns''• Hopkins Medical School
has been secured.
University of Pennsylvania comes fourth in the
list of American Universities this year in the num
ber of matriculates.
At Dickinson this year both first and second
prizes for excellence in entrance examinations
were taken by ladies.
The Senate of Cambridge University, London
has, by a vote of 525 to 185, objected to the
proposition to dispense with the study of Greek.,
The Maine State College has received a natural
history collection from the late Gilbert Lxigfel
low, of Machias, in mem3ry of his two sons, Henr y
W. and Gilbert.
Michigan has seventeen graduates in Congres s
the largest number representing any institution of
learning in the country. Harvard has sixteen
and Yale eleven.
Yale's new dormitory is nearly• completed. It
is 160 feet by 45 feet, and four stories high. It will
contain 26 double rooms and 22 single rooms, and
will cost $125,000.
Yale and Harvard will hold their second debate
in New . Haven on March 25th. The subject for
discussion will be "Resolved, That a college edu
cation unfits a man for business,"
E LANCE.
THE FR
Harvard has 2700 students and claims to be the
most religeous American college.
By the will of Elizabeth Colts, of New York
City, her cottage and land at Newport and $150,-
000 are to be devoted to establishing at Newport
a school for young men; to be known as Coles
College.
During 1886-87 Lehigh University had 365
students enrolled on her lists and 63,000 books in
her library. 1891-92 finds these totals increased
to 527 matriculate students and 88,000 volumes in
the library.
The amount of elective work which Harvard
allows is 8o per cent. ; Michigan University allows
75 per cent. ; Yale, 4o per cent. ; Kansas State
University, 33 per cent. ; Oregon University al
lows none.
Mrs. 'Rotch, of Boston, has recently given $ t o, •
000 to Hartford to be used in the erection of a
building, thoroughly equipped with all the nec
essary apparatus for practical and experimental
work in mechanics and electrical science.--Ex.
The faculty of Columbia College have taken the
very interesting step of making the subject of mar
riage and divorce a distinct department of politi
cal economy, and are editing a series of studies
upon this subject, chiefly on the basis of national
and state statistics.
One of the professors at Brown is to meet the
editorial board of the' Brienonian once:a month
during the for the discussion of the form and mat
ter of light verse. The - Bruno:hut has an envia
ble reputation in this direction and evidently in
tends to retain its pre-eminence.
On January Ist,• 1892, Bowdoin' College
received the announcement of a splendid New
Year's gift in the shape of a bequest of $400,000,
by Mrs. Gareelol), of California, formerly of
Maine. This, added to the other bequests and
donations, makes about $600,000 during the past
year.. We wish we could say the same for Penn
sylvania State College.