—The University of Leipzig. Germany, will celebrate its five hundredth anniversary in 1909. —Yale alumni in the Hawaiian Islands have provided a scholarship of Soo to aid in sending a native student to their Alma Mater. —Columbia University increases her library 149,000 volumes in a year. —The authorities of Stanford University are in earnest with their recent order that crack athletes shall have no consideration unless they keep up their class grades. In accordance with this rule they recently dismissed their crack infield players and the captain of their athletic team. —Within the last six years there has been a constant growth in the elective system of studies at Yale. —According to the recent law the instructor in 'modern lan guages at West Point shall receive the rank and pay of a major. Capt. William Kelley, Jr.. son-in-law of Gov. Odell, has occupied that chair for five years. —Mrs. Abram Anderson, the wife of a New York dentist, has presented Columbia with 5i,000,000. This makes $2,000,000 that she and her brother have given Columbia University within two years —Miss Eleanor L. Flusher. of Philadelphia, a senior at Bryn Mawr, has won the annual Bryn Mawr Oxford Scholarship The alumni number of the Columbia Lit contains several con tributions from men whose names are familiar to magazine read ers. President Butler in his article, "Columbia College, Old and New," shows the remarkable growth of the college, and gives one EXCHANGES. 11. W. STERRETT.
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