The Free lance. (State College, Pa.) 1887-1904, April 01, 1895, Image 17

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    '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.