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,