—Gordon McKay, a wealthy inventor of Massachusetts, be queathed $4,000,000 to Harvard. —Dr. R. H. Thurston, widely known throughout the country as a teacher and authority in civil engineering, died recently. He was president of Sibley College of Engineering at Cornell, and one of the most popular men of that institution. —One of the fiercest class fights of the season occurred at Mt. Union College. The preparatory students raised their colors on the college building. All four upper classes united in the attempt to take them down, but were sadly defeated. ■ —lt costs Columbia University $60,000 annually to carry on her athletics, —Prof. Parker, a member of the faculty of Chicago University, and a man interested in athletics, proposes that college athletics be clean, educational and non-professional. Pie also believes that no gate money should be taken at college games, and that all athletics should be supported by endowments. —During last summer vacation the undergraduates of Colum bia earned more than $31,000, and Yale men earned more than $50,000. Every occupation was engaged in from the young lawyer’s services, which brought him more than $250, to the hard weeks of work in the western wheat fields, which allowed the young man only $5O. —ln the Phoenix there appears an entertaining story, entitled “The Freshness of Delany.” .It is an account of a hazing episode, and ilustrates several well known phases of college life. —“Are the Oxford scholarships of Cecil Rhodes likely to bene fit America?” This is the title of an article in the, Gettysburg EXCHANGES. T. F. FOLTZ.
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