for thirty-five years. He received an embossed tablet with the
names of 10,000 Harvard men attached. At a mass meeting of the
college men a $5,000 portrait of President and Mrs. Eliot was
given to the University.
—ln Germany one person out of every 213 attends college; in
Scotland, one in every 520; in United States, one in every 2,000,
and in England, one in every 5,000.
—For some time Harvard authorities have been considering the
discontinuance of foot ball as a university sport. They give as
their reason the bitter feeling which is manifest among the man
agers, players and substitutes. There seems to be so little of true
college spirit and so much of selfishness and jealousy shown in the
whole affair.
—Casper Whitney, the well known writer on American sports,
in a recent article in the Outing, places “State” thirteenth on the
list of American Colleges in respect to foot ball. His ranking is
based on the style of playing, the comparison of scores and the
conditions under which most important games are played.
—The students of Columbia presented their annual opera at the
Carnegie Lyceum. The entire opera, “The Isle of Illusia,” was
composed by a ’Ol graduate.
—Penn University campus contains sixty acres. At present
fifty buildings are occupied.
—There are 2,572 students in attendance at the university, and
114 of this number are foreigners.
—One hundred students of Yale Scientific School will attend
St. Louis Fair in a body. They will travel and conduct them
selves as a military body. Capt. A. S. Smoke, their instructor in
tactics, will be in command., '
—Carnegie gives Mount Holyoke College $50,000 for a new