of English, History, Constitutional and Political Law. The work is in charge of a man who has had practical newspaper experi- A Chess Club, to consist of members of the faculties as well as of students, is being formed at the University of Pennsylvania, and a meeting will be called shortly for the election of officers. As soon as the organization is effected a chess tournament will be started. At the annual meeting of the Yale basket ball team, it was de cided to attempt to bring about the formation of a league between Princeton, Yale, Trinity and Wesleyan, for next season, and for Princeton and Yale to meet in New York the night before the annual football game. Considerable interest has been aroused by the fact that in the recent change of Columbia from a college to a university, and the consequent reconstruction of the college department, the study of the Greek language is no longer made compulsory. Latin, together with French and German, are still required, however. The Harvard-Columbia-Cornell-Pennsylvania freshman regatta will be rowed on 24 June, two clays previous to the univer4y The University of Michigan has cancelled its base-ball game with Cornell because of the disagreement over the rules of eligi bility for the team. The entire property of the universities and colleges of the United States is valued at $200,000,000 ; one-fourth of this belongs. to four universities. Vacuity members from several of the larger western universities held a meeting at Chicago recently to discuss the eligibility of students for athletic teams. The Columbia four, which won the Henley regatta in 1878, is the only American crew that ever succeeded in beating an English crew on its own waters. Amherst is to have a course of from four to six lectures by prominentpublic men on the topics of the clay. The first will be delivered by Chauncey M. Depew. At Amherst every man is required to undergo a physical exami nation every year, and a record is kept in the gymnasium. The Free Lance [ APRIL,
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