This table shows that President Schurmann’s model student
who works eleven hours a day does not exist. The average
student works little more than eight hours.
—Mr. C. R. Lanman, Professor of Sankrit at Harvard, possesses
the finest library of Buddhist literature in the world.
—Amherst College is to have a new observatory. There will be
placed one of the finest telescopes in the world.
—A gymnasium is to be erected at Purdue University, Lafayette,
Indiana. It is a gift of the citizens of Lafayette and of the friends
of the university. It is to be dedicated as a memorial to the
’Varsity foot ball men who were killed in the railroad wreck near
Indianapolis last fall.
—Ninety-eight Philippine students are enrolled in American
colleges. They are to be educated at the expense of the United
States and then to be sent back as teachers to their native brothers.
—Fifty thousand students are enrolled in American colleges
for men, while only 15,000 students are enrolled in woman’s col
leges. Some of the former schools date back more than two
hundred years, while on the contrary, the great increase in the
latter has occurred within the last twenty years.
With the December exchanges come copies of two kinds, the
foot ball and the Christmas number. Most all of the exchanges
contain the usual number of Christmas stories, some of them be
ing especially good. The Allegheny Literary Monthly contains
one, which is entitled Riotherly Love.” It is the story of a street
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