Not one of the highest twenty men of the pres ent Junior class at Yale came from Exeter, An dover, or St. Paul's, Yale's largest fitting schools. The Hon 'Grover Cleveland was initiated into the mysteries of the Sigma Chi Fraternity during his recent visit to Ann Arbor. Princeton has adopted a new college button. It is a tiger head with Princeton engraved upon the collar.—Ex. The Senior Class of Delaware College has de cided to return this year to the custom of holding class day exercises during commencement week. The Athletic Board of Amherst has decided that unless $l,OOO be raised for the support of the ball team by May zl, no team can be placed in the field. The Eberly brothers, who have just entered the Prep. School at Dickinson, are built for foot-ball. Their heights are respectively 6 feet 4 inches and 6 feet 3 inches, and their aggregate weight 430 pounds.—Ex. The faculty of Boston University has voted to permit work on the college paper to count as cur riculum work, allowing seven hours per week to the managing editor and two hours to each as sistant. The faculty at Yale have decided that the class of '94, as a class, shall not take part in any ath- letic sports during their college course. This ac tion was taken because of a disturbance created on the campus, in which two tutors were roughly handled.—Ex. The largest university in the world is said to be the great Moslem University of Cairo, founded in 975, with its xo,ooo pupils and 370 professors. They have no benches, but study, eat and sleep on a blanket or mat. The Koran is the only book used for grammar, law, philosophy and theology. The students study and learn it repeatedly. Dr. Sargent, of Harvard University, has in view a scheme to place on exhibition at the World's Fair two bronze castings. These castings are to THE FREE LANCE. represent . masculine figures, ideally perfect in their physical proportions. The plans have not yet been perfected, and as the scheme is still a vision ary one nothing definite can be said about it. W. C. Noble, the famous portrait statue artist, who now has a studio in Cambridge, will prepare the figures. Contrary to the custom in . former years.at Princeton, the foot-ball management has decided to begin systematic practice at once. This will give an opportunity to develop individual players during the spring, and the entire fall will be left for team work. Captain King notified the fol lowing men to report at the gymnasium dressed for practice: Randolph, Henderson and Murray from '93 ; Bowse, Chamberlain, Turner and Mc- Cauley, from '94; Bunting, Beveridge, Brown, S. A. Hodge, Koehler. Lewis, Miles, McCormick. Pelear, Symmes and James, '95. The Nassau Lit has quite a lengthy editorial on "College Elections" from which we take the following : "During the past few years an exceedingly dan-. gerous tendency has shown itself in the elections to fill positions on the Executive Committee of the Athletic Association. It is the tendency to ever increasing electioneering by members of the more prominent clubs. This has gone far enough in preceding years, but the climax was reached at a recent mass-meeting of the college, when sever al members of a certain club stood at the main en trance of the English Room and attempted to ex clude men—especially Freshmen—who were not intending to vote for the candidate whom they favored. We say "especially Freshmen" with a meaning. Surely no one who had been in college a year would submit to being subjected to a cross• examination on the subject of his preference be fore being admitted to the room. For that is ex actly what was done, or, rather, attempted. Those EXCHANGES.
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