"There is no question that foot ball was never
so popular as this season, and the interest taken
in the doings of the big university elevens seem as
great before even the first games have been played
as during the last weeks of former seasons. The
interest in the great game among the smaller col
leges all over the country has increased in the
same proportion."
The Ursinus College Bulletin says there are
five main lines along which a student's work
should run . "These are study, reading, society
work, college politics, and athletics. As a rule
most studeuts follow but one, two or three, at
most of these, and the result is that we find many
students who are scholars, book-worms, speakers,
politicians, or athletes, but few to whom all these
terms may be applied. These few have fully re
alized the benefits which a college is supposed to
give."
Regarding the value of literary society
work, we clip the following from The College Stud-
'.The bnefit derive" from these societies can
not be estimated from a financial standpoint, and
those who do not take advantage of the opportu
nities offered them in this direction will only re
alize when it is too late what a loss they have
sustained.
After all it is only what we get for ourselves
that benefits us. The training of the societies is
not merely literary, but the members learn prac
tical lessons in conducting meetings and trans
acting business which will be of inestimable
value in their after college life, whether as
citizens of their country or professional men."
COLLEGE ORBIT.
There are 430 colleges in the United States
with 123,523 students.
The University of Pennsylvania will, offer
among the college courses this year one designed
to prepare students for newspaper work.
THE FREE LANCE.
Yale will support the Undergraduate Rule in
football again this year.
The Yale faculty are making a strong effort to
raise the standard of English in the university.
Vigorous measures were taken by the faculty of
Princeton recently to blot out all hazing forever
from Princeton.
Mrs. Leland Stanford is personally supervising
extensive changes in her husband's great ranch
at Vina, Cal., held by her in trust for Stanford
University, to increase its productiveness and put
it on a paying basis thereby enlarging the in
come of the University.
The first woman in the world to receive the de
gree of electrical engineer is Miss Bertha Lamme,
of Springfield, Ohio. She is a graduate of the
Ohio State University, where she led her class
throughout the entire course ; and she now holds
a position
,in the Westinghouse Electric Company.
at Pittsburg.
This year about thirty Yale men are scattered
through American collegedom as coachers for
aspiring college teams. Yale has held the su
premacy in football for a period of fifteen years.
Her success is greatly due to the scientific train
ing of football teams at New Haven, commonly
called the "Yale system."
NOW AND THEN
O the days, and 0 the dances
Of that olden,
Golden
Swords and lances,
Tender glances,
Love and laughter, war and rhyme,
Made the wide world all romances,
Life a song, a wedding chime !
Ho, sad Sir, I match the Present
With your dusty,
Knight and peasant,
Cross and crescent,
These have passed, but Life's old ohimo
Rings the same, now sad, now pleasant—
Tears, love, laughter, joy and crime
—Trinity Tablet.