1897.] Of Interest , Perhaps,
The largest institution of learning in the world is the University
of Berlin, with an enrollment of 8,343 students.
Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, professor of Archaeology and Linguistics
at the University of Pennsylvania, has just advanced the theory
that all savages are insane.
It is not likely that Yale will engage a professional coach for
the base ball team this year, and Captain Keator will probably do
most of the work in drilling the team. Preliminary work will be
begun at once.
In all the Universities of France there exist no college periodi
cals, no glee clubs, no classes, no fraternities, no athletics, and
they have no commencements.
At Cornell there is an association for the study of brains. It
asks for the brains of prominent individuals after the owners are
through with them.
At Brown University the Athletic Association has adopted the
Australian ballot in all its elections.
Foot ball, base ball, track athletics, the dramatic club, the
glee and mandolin club, lecture course committee, and tennis
association at Kenyon College are all under the control of the
student body. The organization under which they are united is
called the ‘ ‘ Kenyon College Assembly. ’ ’
The Faculty of the University of Virginia granted the students
of that institution a Christmas vacation of one day, and that was
Christmas day itself.
Owing to the crowded condition of the California State Uni
versity the regents have had erected three large tents, which are
to be used as recitation rooms.
The colleges of the United States were enriched during the
last year by bequests and gifts to the amount of $16,814,000. Of
this amount Princeton received $1,352,000, University of Cali
fornia, $4,000,000 and the Methodist University at Washington,
$1,040,000.
In England but one man in every 5,000 attends colleges; in
Scotland, one man in 520; in Germany, one in every 213, and in
the United States, one man in every 2,000.
A new dormitory will be added to Columbia, the cost of which
will be $1,000,000. Attached to it will be a culinary department,
and the entire dormitory will accommodate over 900 students