September and was in quarantine but one
hour. He made special observations of methods
of dealing with problems arising in sanitary and
hydraulic engineering and as a result it seems to
him that the English practice is decidedly in ad
vance of our own in these directions, the superior
ity doubtless being due to the fact that they have
felt more keenly the pressure of these problems
than we have. Highways are in to great a con
trast to those in America to admit of comparison,
while bridge engineering has reached a higher de
velopment here than it has in England.
COLLEGE ORBIT.
Harvard offers 295 elective courses this year.
More than half of Yale’s team will be new ma-
Wellesley College opened with 479 students
this year,
Williams College will celebrate its 100th anni-
versary in ’93.
Tufts is to admit women hereafter according to
the vote of trustees.
Cornell will offer a course in the Russian lan
guage and literature this year.
Dickinson has a twenty-eight-year-old professor
who is one of the fifteen or twenty scholars in the
world who are able to decipher Assyrian inscrip
tions. His name is Robert W. Rogers, Ph. D.
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Ex-President Andrew D. White, of Cornell, a
Yale graduate of’s3, has been appointed Minister
Plenipotentiary to Russia.
College base ball was first introduced at Har
vard and Brown. Harvard, ’66, played Brown,
'65, and won by a score of 57 to 17.
Lehigh is to have a new electric Laboratory
which will be 236x33 feet, and will cost £200,000.
work on the building has already been begun.
Rev. William H. Whittington, who died at
Jackson, Mich., August 31st, was at the time of
his death the oldest living Harvard graduate. He
was graduated in the class of ’2l, being a classmate
of Emerson.
The students at Lehigh last year resolved to do
away with cane rushes, but the two lower classes
have already had two very exciting rushes this year,
and it is expected that the faculty will put severe
restrictions upon those classes.
Twenty-five thousand dollars have been collec
ted toward building the “Harvard House” in New
York City. “Harvard House” will be a general
club for Harvard men, and the entire expenditure
on ground and building will be over £70,000.
Harry A. Garfield, oldest son of the late Presi
dent Garfield, and a recent graduate af Williams,
has an appointment to professorship in the new
law school of Western Reserve University, at Cleve
land, Ohio. He is regarded as a lawyer and teach
er of great promise.
BUSH,
BILLIF@N)TFI e PA.