The Free lance., January 01, 1888, Image 15

COLI,E GE ORBIT.
Haverford has adopted the cap and gown
Wesleyan University is yet without a prehi-
At Columbia is:a copy of Shakespeare valued
at,53,000.
Fifty-one graduates of Princeton have served
in the U. S. Senate.
At the University of Cairo,...Egypt, tl:ee are
3,000 students in attendance.
Almost i;000,000 is invested in college gym
nasiums in the United States.
In iBB6 there were 4,654 graduated from
the Chautauqua University, •
Cornell offers a prize for the best work clone
in the study of Shakespeare.
The study of the Bible as a text book is be
ing urged by some eastern colleges.
At the University of Pennsylvania oratorical
exercises in chapel have been abolished.
It is said that there are 44 student organiza
tions at Columbia, including 2 poker clubs.
Rutgers College has recently increased its
faculty by the addition of two new professors,
George Bancroft, the historian, is one of the
four survivors of the class of tBl7 of Harvard.
Dr. McGlynn has prophesied that Cornell
will soon be the leading college in the country.
Pratt Institute is a new educational institu•
tion which promises to he a great acquisition for
:Brooklyn.
There is a movement on foot in Alabama to
found a State University at Montgomery for
colored people,
Never before was Harvard in more deter
mined preparation to win laurels in the athletic
field than at present.
At Illinois College and at Lehigh students
who make a term-grade of 85 are not required
to pass examinations.
Miss Alice Freeman, who reigned the presi
dency of Wellesley, has been married to Prot.
George Herbert Palmer of Harvard.
The American Protective Tariff League has
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renewed its offer to the senior classes of tie col
leges and universities of the United States.
• Dr. McCosh who mostly ha something im
portant to say on matters of general college in
terest will hand in his resignation on Feb. Ist.
Miss Margaret j. Evans, preeeptress of Car
leton College, Minnesota, has had the presidency
of Wellesley offered her but she will probably
decline.
Hereafter there will be no mention of honors
made in the register or commencement programme
of Cowell. At Columbia the marking system
has been abolished.
Cornell has lately been obliged to refuse a
bequest of $1,500,000 because the
,institution is
Prohibited by. from holding an endowment of
more than $3,000,000. •
The University of Michigan was the liNt to
introduce co-education into this country, but this
institution has not graduated the largest number
of ladies.
President Seeyle, of Amherst, in a circular
issued recently, called attention to the fact that
one-seventh of the annual admissions during re
cent years have come from other colleges.
The Freshman class of lowa College numbers
78. The college seems to be encouraged from the
peculiar signs which appear in the success
they are attaining every way this year.
• The most prominent candidates for the pres•
idency of Princeton made vacant by the resig
nation of Dr. McCosh, are Dr. John Hall, of
New York, and Dr. Patton and Prof. Sloan, both
of the college.
Prof. Woodrow, who was ousted from his
chair in the Theological Seminary in Columbia,
S. C., on account of his teachings on evolution,
has been continued as a prolesior in the University
of South Carolina.
—We add to the list of our exchanges the
Universio Reporter "devoted to the interests of
the University of Georgia"
—The College Student contains a timely, .n •
teresting, and suggestive article .entitled "A
Fault and Some Possible Remedies,"
• —A substantial journal and gotten up in a
substantial form is the University Mirgazine of
the University of North Carolina.
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