'Twub u lJostun timid 1 was culling on, And I thought I’d put on a bluir, So J.spoko of Latin poetry, For X know alio liked suoli stuff. JJut sho wasn’t so slow as you might suppose, In spite of her lournlng immense, When I asked what Latin poem Host expressed her sentiments. For tlie lioston maid, who la classic shadu, Was supposod to defy Love’s charms, Just hung her head and demurely said : “I sing of men and of arms." Yolo llmml. COLLEGE ORBIT. Chicago University has a glee club of sixteen women Rutgerses contemplating the use of the honor system in examinations. Thirty-nine courses will be offered this year at the summer school of Harvard. The undergraduate course at Johns Hopkins is to be extended from three to four years. Brown is the first American College to offer courses in the. Dutch language and literature. The Army and Navy departments have issued orders prohibiting the playing of football at West Point and Annapolis. Captain Armstrong of the Yale crew has de vised a pump by which the coxswain can bail out the shell in rough weather. Because of the success of the committee on dis cipline at Cornell, this committee has been given power to act in all cases of University discipline. The Faculty of Wellesley College have decided to let the girls practice rowing, and an eight-oared barge has been built for them. However, it will not be used for racing. Governor Flower, of New York, has signed the anti-hazing bill, passed by the Legislature. Ihe bill imposes a fine of not less than sto nor more than $lOO, or imprisonment of not less than thirty days nor more than a year upon all students caught hazing or aiding the affair, in any way. THE FRE TWO AIIMS, E LANCE. The faculty of the University of Wisconsin have prohibited Freshmen from playing on any 'Varsity team, except by special permission of the faculty, The Missouri Legislature has appropriated $i i,- 200 to the Missouri State University for athletic use. It will be used in fitting up a general Ath letic field. Individual members of the Yale base-ball team will regularly visit the larger New England pre paratory schools for the purpose of coaching the school teams. According' to an article by Professor C. E. Thwing in the Forum, the average annual ex penses of a Harvard student have increased dur ing the last fifty years from $lBB.lO to $687.50. The track team of the University of California, composed of fifteen men, will start for the East the first week in May. They are scheduled to meet Harvard and Pennsylvania prior to the in ter-collegiate contest. The ancient Olympic games of Athens are to be revived in the form of modern athletic meets, including field sports, track events and regattas. Invitations have been extended to all the countries of Europe and America for 1 heir athletes to com pete in the games to be celebrated April 5 to 15, 1896. We notice that our old friend, the Free Lance comes out very strongly in Feb. number against the wearing of caps and gowns. We hardly agree in the view taken. We hold that a little senti ment mixed in with our practical ideas is a good thing. We shall hardly get enough to hurt us.— Maine State Cadet. New York, situated midway between Ithaca and Philadelphia, is the natural place for holding the triangular contest between Cornell, University of Pennsylvania and ourselves. The regatta, if held here, will attract college men from all over the country, and will soon supersede in importance the annual Yale-Harvard procession. —Columbia Spectator.
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