1895-] election of officers for the various athletic associations. This action was taken by advice of the Graduate Advisory and Ex ecutive Committee of Princeton. Four million dollars and a site valued at $500,000 have been given toward a new American University at Washington. President Schurman, in speaking of self-government at Cornell, said: “Freedom in college is no less valuable than freedom of citizenship; it makes the same appeal to manhood and honor.” Columbia boasts eighteen college publications. Harvard has a photograph of every graduate since 1872, numbering in all about 26,000. The expenses for “ Prom, week ” at Yale are estimated at $B9. With this sum a young man can “ do ” Prom, week with a young lady and her chaperon. The following is the action recently taken at Harvard with a view of eliminating plagiarism in college work: “The Adminis trative Board of Harvard College, holding that handing in by a student of written work not his own is dishonorable and unworthy of a member of this University, proposes hereafter to separate from the college a student guilty of such conduct.” The Faculty of Boston University has decided to allow work on the college papers to count as a certain number of hours’ work toward graduation. President C. K. Adams, of the University of Wisconsin, in speaking of football, says: " If you trace the antagonism to foot ball, you will find that it is most intense where the person criticis ing the sport knows the least about it. ’ ’ Statistics have been published showing that of the 1112 men who played football on college elevens last season, but ten were temporarily disabled and only one permanently injured. In Germany there are thirteen law, eighteen medical and five theological students to every 100,000 inhabitants. In the United States there are seven law, twenty-four medical and eleven theo logical students to every 100,000. Eighty-four courses of study are announced for the Cornell summer school. The session will open on July Bth, and will ex tend to August 16th. The World’s Student Conference will be held at Northfield, Mass., from June 29th to July 9th. College Orbit.
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