COLLEGE ORBI.7:
Lehigh has organized a University Press Club.
—Ex.
An oratorical contest is to be held in Chicago,
on June 3oth, at which seventy-five colleges will
be represented. —Ex.
It is said that they have a newly invented ma
chine at Yale for measuring how tired a student is.
—Ex.
The students in the Mechanical School at the
University of Michigan have made a full set of
machines, which they will exhibit at the World's
Fair.—Ex.
Princeton will send a scientific expedition,
composed of thirteen highei classmen, to the
West this summer. Its object is to find the fossil
remains of prehistoric animals.
At the coming commencement of Roanoke Col
lege, Virginia, a full-blooded Choctaw Indian,
said to be one of the best speakers in his class,
will be graduated.
Each of the 63 Seniors leaving Vassar will re
ceive a sterling silver spoon with a gold bowl as a
graduation present. The spoons were designed,
and presented as a second diploma, by one of the
trustees.
The Faculty of the University of Minnesota de
cided in favor of an address by a distinguished
speaker to take the place of commencement day
orations.—Ex.
In the World's Fair exhibit of the University
of the City of New York is the original telegraph
battery and instrument used by Morse. There is
also the first photograph ever taken of a human
face.—Ex.
The University of Pennsylvania will contrib
ute to the folk-lore department of the World's
Fair, a collection of the games of the world..
The origin of playing cards will be traced from
the primitive knuckle-bones up to the Chinese
cards of the present.
THE FREE LANCE.
Dr. Chauncey M. Depew, who has for ten years
been regularly nominated and elected president
of the Yale Alumni Association, will not be re
elected. Mr. Depew it seems, declined reelec
tion this year.
"Foot Ball Billiards" is a newly invented game
which is said to excel modern foot ball. It con-
tains all its interesting and exciting features,
while it Jacks its rough and dangerous ones. Many
predict the game will soon become popular.—Ex.
The Dramatic Association of the Princeton
University gave a farce entitled "The Hon. Julius
Caesar," which was supposed to be based upon
Shakespeare's historic "Julius Caesar." The play
however differed widely from the latter, but met
with great success.
Top .spinning at Yale is exclusively a privilege
of the seniors. As soon as a man has entered up
on the last year of his college course he is sup
posed to have acquired so great a dignity of bear
ing that to indulge in childish sports will not de
tract from his seriousness. Consequently, when
the Spring time comes the Yale seniors appear up.
on the campus with tops, hoops, skipping ropes,
marbles, stilts, and every other kind of boyish
sports. Groups gather in every part of the yard,
and the sport is kept up for hours. The under
class men stand around with their hands in their
pockets, wishing that they, too, were seniors, and
looking forward with envy to the day when they
shall reach that dignity; but not one of them
would any more think of spinning a top or rolling
a hoop than of playing leap frog with President
Dwight or poker with Dr. Parkhurst. For an un
der classman to indulge in the senior's sports
would be sacrilege to all Yale's traditions and
would be promptly punished by ostracism.
Regarding the advantages of a small college for
the training of athletes, The Lafayette says,
"The smaller college is obviously the place for the
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