are held oil Saturday afternoons, when two “hares 1 ' ate
selected and as many “hounds” are admitted as want to be.
—The Yale faculty , has recently provided that each
student shall be allowed thirty cuts a year without suffering
any penalty. If a student shows exceptional regularity in
attendance at recitations, he is allowed to dimish the number
of recitation hours a year in a course from sixty to fifty
eight.
—A dictionary of college slang is being prepared by two
professors from one of our eastern institutions. The diction
ary will contain about 800 words aud phrases. It will be
issued in a handy volume so that all freshmen may provide
themselves with a copy of it when entering colleg'e and thus
make themselves understood when talking to upper classmen.
—A new book entitled “Yale Fun” has recently been
issued at New Haven. It consists of selections and illus
trations from the Record for the past eight years, and
according to the Yale News represents the best humorous
writing by Yale men in recent years.
—A list of colleges that have the largest matriculation
this year has recently been compiled and shows them to be
in the following order: Columbia 4,392; University of Michi
gan 3,813; University of Chicago 3,774; University of
Minnesota 3,423; University of California 3,216; Cornell 3,004;
Yale 2,584; Pennsylvania 2,573.
—The following colleges support a daily newspaper:
Harvard, Yale, Brown, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Cornell,
Michigan, lowa, Nebraska, Stanford, California, Indiana
and Wisconsin.
—The donations and bequests to American colleges the
past year amount to over $15,000,000. Brown University has
received $1,000,000; Tulane $1,500,000; Harvard $735,000;
Pennsylvania $540,000; Clark $3,000,000; Dartmouth $210,-
000; Ohio Wesleyan $600,000; Columbia $492,000; Alle-