- The Sheffield Scientific School has received a bequest of $500.
- The Seniors have petitioned for less work. They now have eighteen hours a week.
- A post-graduate course with the degree M. L. has been added to the Law School.
- Among the lecturers for the year are Professor Norton and Rev. Phillips Brooks.
- The challenge from the H. U. B. C. for an eight-oared race has been formally accepted by the Yale navy.
- There will be but two vacations this year, one of three weeks in the winter, and the summer vacation of eleven weeks. There will be a spring recess from March 28 to May 7.
- The Yale Catalogue shows the following attendance: Seniors, 118; Juniors, 137; Sophomores, 160; Freshmen, 154; total, 569; Scientific School, 206; Theological Students, 95; Medical, 36; Law, 60; Philosophy and Arts, 69. Whole number of students, 1,021.
Princeton.- The new base-ball ground will be ready for use in the spring.
- Dr. McCosh holds weekly library-meetings for the discussion of topics connected with mental science.
- The class-races occurred October 25. The course was a mile and a half, straight away, and was won by '78; time, 9:55.
- The Seniors have petitioned to the trustees for the removal of the "Finals," examinations which cover the ground of the Freshman and Sophomore work.
- The trustees have removed the billiard-tables and bowling-alleys from the gymnasium because they "were deleterious to the moral health of the community."
Columbia.- A Glee Club has been started.
- The Boat Club has a debt of two thousand dollars.
- The whole number of graduates since 1758, the date of the graduation of the first class, is 5,706.
- The following are the times in the athletic sports: mile walk, 8 min. 2 1/4 sec.; quarter-mile run, 55 sec.; mile run, 5 min. 12 1/2 sec.; 100-yard dash, 11 1/6 sec.; three-mile walk, 25 min. 48 sec.; half-mile run, 2 min. 25 sec.
- The regatta occurred October 20. In all the races the distance rowed was one mile. The races were as follows: four-oared shell, 5 min. 34 sec. The second race was won by a picked crew in 5 min. 24 1/2 sec., the time of the University Four (handicapped by 10 sec.) being 5 min. 29 1/2 sec.; six-oared shell, time 5 min. 25 sec.; the single scull, 7 min. 5 sec.
Amherst.- The base-ball championship has been won by '77.
- An orchestra has been organized in the Sophomore class.
- The Rugby rules have been adopted, and at present foot-ball is the leading sport.
- Professor E. Root has been elected to fill the chair of Natural Philosophy made vacant by the death of Professor Snell.
Brown.- The foot-ball challenge from Yale is under consideration.
- Delegates to the meeting of the New England Rowing Association have been appointed.
- President Robinson has as yet met with no response to his request that the ringleaders in the recent cane-rushes sign an agreement not to provoke the Sophomores.
Williams.- Sunday walks have been forbidden.
- Base-ball record: games played, four; games won, two.
- Professor Tenney intends to make an expedition to Labrador next summer. A number of students will accompany him; the estimated expense of the trip is from $150 to $200.
Tufts.- A Dramatic Club has been organized.
- The athletic sports occurred November I, at the Mystic grounds.
- Music is on the rise. There are now two classes in College, and an orchestra is forming.
- The New England Association of College Presidents met with President Capen, Wednesday, October 25.
Cornell.- Instruction in astronomy is now given by lectures.
- The Juniors have beaten each of the other three classes at foot-ball.
- Professor Carson has accepted an invitation to read a paper on Shakspere's Versification before the "New Shakspere Society" of London, on the second Friday in June.
Miscellaneous.- The Hamilton Boating Association has died a natural death.
- The Hon. Edmund H. Bennett, dean of the law school of Boston University, has offered a prize of $50, to be known as, the "Hillard prize," for the best essay written by any member of the school during the school year.
- A book entitled "American Colleges" will be published during the winter. Mr. C. Richardson of the Independent is to be the editor and publisher.
- In a game of hare and hounds at Rugby, October 20, there were two hares and twenty-five bounds, of whom fifteen came in, most of them before the hares. The extent of the run is fixed before the game begins, and the hares run to a definite point.
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