Harvard’s ’varsity crew, in training 1 this season, will be given long walks of eight or ten luiles, instead of runs as heretofore. Iceland Stanford University boys are making arrangements to spare their throats in coming games. They are subscribing $5OO for a steam horn to be used at all games. Yale is considering the advisability of giving up compulsory chapel. There are in the Yale Trophy Room forty-seven base balls won in the games with Princeton, forty-six in games with Harvard, and fourteen in games with Pennsylvania. A student excursion has been arranged by the University of Pennsylvania by which two months can be spent in England, Scotland, and Germany for $250. The income and expenditure of Harvard College for a year is nearly double that of the Province of New Brunswick. More than 100 professors and instructors have been added to the number of her teaching staff in the last six years. It has been estimated that it would take a student 70 years to go through all the courses in the different schools of the University. The first of the modern Olympic games jvill be held on April 6tli, 1896, the Greek Independence Day. The ancient Stadium of Athens is to be repaired, and its embanked sides will be covered with seats, making a seating capacity of 20,000 spectators. The aquatic sports will be held in the roadstead of Phaleron, or in the straits of Salamis. The prizes will be silver wreaths of laurel or olive, and they will be presented by the Greek king in person. Brown University hereafter will not examine students in any study -whose term standing in that study is 85 per cent., provided absences do not exceed a certain limit. I vowed 011 my knees that I loved her, Asked for her heart ere I went; But she said that really she couldn’t, Because just at present ’twas Lent. The Free Lance. EXCHANGES. Her Answer. [May,
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