—lt is proposed to establish in New York City a branch of the Catholic University of America, to be known' as the Department of Pedagogy. —A bill is now before the New York Legislature, appro priating $200,000 for new buildings for the College of Agri culture at Cornell University. —lt is announced that hereafter students , of the medical school of Yale University may complete the course in three years if they elect the nezessary preliminary studies in the academic department. —Mr. Deboe, of Kentucky, has introduced a bill in the Senate to establish a University of the United States. It provides that the grounds set the by Washington for a university, lately occupied by the U. S. Naval Observatory, , . are to be used as a site. —Professor Victor Vaughan, dean of the Medical College of the University of Michigan, is chairman of a committee composed of representatives from the leading schools of the United States, whose object is to make it possible for a sys tem of credits to be standardized in all these schools, so that a student in any one of them may transfer to any other without loss of standing. The colleges represented on the committee are Michigan, Harvard / Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and Western Reserve. —Cablegrams report that in the disturbances on Febru ary 22, at Moscow University, four hundred students, armed with bludgeons, iron bars and revolvers, wrecked the interior of the University buildings, barricaded themselves within, and hung out red flags from the windows. The police and troops forced an entrance into the interior and arrested the ringleaders of the rioters... .A decree of , the minister of pub lic instruction has been gaZetted, ordering the expulsion from the University and high school of all students arres ted in connected with the rioting.
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