—During the summer Harvard authorities shall spend $1,500 for improvements on their campus. —The New York city school boy must say good-bye to Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The Superintendent of Public Schools has barred it from the literary shelves. He says: “The book tells of times that have past, of evils that have perished and of slavery and butchery that the present day knows not.’* —Thomas Randolph Price, professor of English at Columbia University for the last twenty years, died recently. Mr. Price was an officer of engineers in the Confederate army. He spent three years as a student in Germany. For a number of years he taught Greek and Hebrew in Virginia University. The one million dollar buildings of the Jacob Tome Insti tute at Deposit, Maryland, were dedicated recently. This is a new school, and the management feels secure with an endowunent of $3,000,000, Ihe faculty of Harvard have taken determined measures to eradicate thieving among the undergraduates. “To swipe a sign of some description has now become an essential part of the student life. Many of the men would rather give up a year's allowance than hand over the signs which they have collected. The students of Columbia are complaining of the cost of living, and they are making loud demands for college dormi tories. During the lecent strike oi the drivers in the employ of the , v Havcn Tn,ckin 8 Company about fifty Yale men placed liemsevts at the service of the company. They asked no pay, but simply entered the work for noveltv. At V inant s Hall, Rutgers College, the matron willingly COLLEGE ORBIT. O. C. HAYS,
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