The Free lance., April 01, 1896, Image 19

1896.]
OTHER COLLEGE, MICROCOSMS
A bicycle company is to be formed at Cornell which will be
drilled in cavalry movements.
Three students have been suspended from Chicago University
for refusal to attend gymnasium.
The Naval Academy at Annapolis will send representatives to
compete in the intercollegiate fencing contests this year.
Miss Helen Gould has given $B,OOO to Vassar, which will be
used in founding a scholarship in memory of her mother.
An indoor track and field in ?.et between the University of
Chicago and the University of Illinois, was held at Champaign on
March 7.
The expense of sending the Yale crew to the Henley regatta
will be about sro,ooo. It is to be subscribed by alumni and
undergraduates.
Steps are being taken to have the New York Athletic Club call
a meeting of representatives of Eastern colleges for a revision of
football rules.
Since 1879 twenty-one College Christian Association buildings
have been erected in the United States and Canada at an aggre
gate cost of $438,000.
The University of California has challenged the University of
Chicago to a dual track and field athletic meeting some time in
maternity affairs at the University of Chicago have taken
another turn. The faculty recently abolished the freshman rule
and substituted a clause prohibiting fraternities from pledging men
until they have been enrolled as students for six months.
The plan of student self-government worked so successfully last
year at Rutgers that it will be tried again this fall. The student
governors will include four from the Senior and Junior classes,
and two each froth the Sophomore and Freshman classes.
Berkeley and Leland Stanford are to have a joint debate soon,
United States Senator Perkins of California, has given a decided
impetus to the debate by offering two annual prizes of aoo each,
to be given to the best speakers on either side in the contest.
Another university has added a course in Journalism to its cur
riculum. It is the University of Indiana, and the course consists
Olner College Microcosms