to have been Freshman work, and one of the students was dangerously injured by pieces of the dynamite cartridge exploded. The Intercollegiate Athletic Association met in Annual Convention in New York City, Feb. 23, and passed a resolution to “withdraw from the National Amateur Asso ciation of American Athletes and for the future remain an independent association.” Princeton, Harvard, Amherst, Yale, Dart mouth, Cornell, and Columbian, are all train ing teams for the coming base-ball season. Nineteen thousand dollars in prizes and the income of $lBO,OOO, in Scholarships, are an nually given Amherst. Haverford has abolishad the rule requiring fictitious signatures to examination papers on the ground of its being derogatory to their dignity. Kettlenmn, of Yale, recently broke the record for the hundred yard dash, making it in nine and three-quarter seconds. Columbia has an amateur photographic society which recently had an exhibit of five hundred photographs. The largest library in the world is the Im perial at Paris ; it contains 2,000,000 volumes. The new Chemical and Physical Building of the Pennsylvania State College, will be the finest equipped Laboratory of its size in the United States. Mrs. Cleveland has been elected President of the Eastern Alumni Association of Wells College. Yale has sent out 13,444 students. . At Wellesley, twenty hours of recitation are required a week. The Junior class at Yale has organized a gun club, which will probably become a col lege institution. THE FREE LANCE. Harvard gave its first-degree of LL. D to George Washington. The Sophs, of Columbia, have decreed that the Freshmen shall not smoke. Recitations at Harvard are voluntary as long as the student is doing a fair amount of The Harvard College baseball team cleared $ 2,500 last year. The new Assembly Hall of the Pennsyl vania State College will comfortably seat 2,000 people. The Yale Freshmen have a Glee Club of twenty-six voices. The Harvard Glee and Banjo Clubs, at a concert for the crew in New York, netted $l,OOO. Of two American students at the Naval College, England, one obtained first and the other fifth place at the last examination. Clark University will open next October. The buildings are rapidly approaching com pletion and everything is expected to be in readiness towards the beginning of Septem ber. Of the members of the outgoing Cabinet, Fairchild and Endicott are graduates of Har vard ; Whitney, of Yale; Dickinson,of Michi gan University : Vilas, of Wisconsin Uni versity, and Garland, of St. Mary’s College. The University of Wisconsin has lately built a new scientific school at an expense of $270,000, Longfellow, Hawthorne and President Pierce belonged to one class at Bowdoin. President D. J. Hill, of Bucknell Univer sity, has accepted the presidency of Roches ter University, The University of Toronto will send a base ball team on a tour to the American Colleges.
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