1897-] the largest, which is situated at Cairo, Egypt, has ten thousand students. The Pennsylvania State Legislature has been asked to appro priate $1,000,000 to enable the University of Pennsylvania to im prove its several departments of study. The University of Chicago is soon to begin the erection of a mammoth gymnasium. In connection with it there is to be an athletic field, so arranged that it can be enclosed in winter and used for winter sports. Upon the new gateway at. the entrance to the Cornell campus will be placed this inscription: “To enter, that daily thou mayest become more learned and thoughtful; to depart, that daily thou mayest become more useful to thy country and to mankind.” The winner of the recent oratorical prize contest at Wabash College has been found to have plagiarized one of Dr. Lyman Abbott’s sermons. He won, however, on the point of delivery, the judges having docked him on composition and thought. Nevertheless he is to be expelled from college. The expedition sent out by the University of Pennsylvania to dig for archaeological records in the mound of Nippur, in Baby lonia, reported the discovery of no less a treasure than a cunei form inscription that, it is claimed, carries Babylonian history .2,250 years further than anything known before. There are more students in the colleges of Ohio than in the colleges of any other State. At present there are 16,000 young men and 8,000 young women being educated in these numerous institutions. The debaters who represent Yale in her inter-collegiate debate are in the future to receive as a trophy a gold watch charm, in the shape of an old Greek coin, bearing on the one side in relief the head of Demosthenes, and on the other the name and class of the debater. Mr. Lehman, the Harvard coach, in a recent letter to the London Daily News said of the cheering at inter-collegiate games: ” At a foot ball match between Oxford and Cambridge we shout a little, we cheer sedately, but our best efforts are to these Amer ican demonstrations as the surface of the Thames is to the tossing expanse of the Atlantic in a winter storm. ’ ’ Here And There.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers