President Harper. He has recently been severe in the criticism of Mr. Rockefeller, the greatest benefactor of the University He can see no beauty in the poems of Lowell, Longfellow or Holmes, and he affirms that many of our hymns are doggerel. —The will of Chas. S. Henry, late of Philadelphia, bequeaths $5,000 to Princeton University. The interest from this amount is to be spent in planning and caring for trees and shrubbery on the university campus. —The Western Reserve University of Cleveland, will establish a chair of political science as a memorial to the great statesman and citizen, Marcus A. Hanna. —Johns Hopkins celebrated the twenty-eighth anniversary of its founding on February 22c1. Dr. John Finley, President of Col lege of New York City, was orator of the day. —Yale’s athletic association had receipts last year amounting to $90,000. The whole amount was spent in repair of grand stand and grounds, and in paying expenses of various trips of the athletic teams. The students are taxed seven dollars a year athletic fee. There is much dissatisfaction among the student body on account of this extravagant taxation and the lavish ex penditure in that department. —Mr. James Colgate, the oldest member of the New York Stock Exchange, died on February 17th. He is best remembered by his philanthropic gifts to educational and religious enterprises. The institution which received his most liberal gifts was Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y. —Gordon McClave was perhaps fatally injured in a friendly csuffle in his room at Princeton. He was a promising athlete, and is a younger brother of Ross McClave, Princeton’s full back of ’O2 —The senior mining engineers of Columbia, Boston "Tech.,” Harvard, Yale and possbly those of Colorado School of Mines,
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