AFTER the last storm it was found that one or two inches of snow had drifted through the transom of Weld. Query: Ought the ornamental in architecture to predominate over the practical ?
THE inscription on the base-ball case, in the Auditor's room of Memorial Hall, is a curious melange: Ex dono '78, '79, '80, January, 1878. The grammatical canon is yet to be found which authorizes such a jumble of Latin, Arabic numerals, and English.
PRESIDENT McCosh, of Princeton College, declares Yale and Harvard "sinfully, nay, almost ruinously expensive," but thinks that "this arises not so much from the demands of the colleges as from the exactions of cliques and classes of students in forming clubs and providing amusements."
MR. W. L. TITUS, 3 Stoughton, is the special retail agent in Cambridge, for the heliotypes published by Houghton, Osgood & Co. These heliotypes include many choice subjects from Correggio, Durer, Land-seer, and others. Specimens may be seen at Mr. Titus's room. The pictures are 19 X 24 inches in size, and retail at one dollar each.
THE number of matriculated students during the present winter at the Prussian University at Berlin is 2839. They are divided among the faculties as follows : theological, 168; legal, 1163; medical, 345; philosophical, 1163. There are 210 foreigners in the list, including 42 from America. Besides these matriculated students, there are 2200 other persons in attendance on the lectures, belonging to the various technical and art schools of the city. The corps of instructors numbers 210, nearly half of whom are in the philosophical faculty.
AN experiment in daily journalism has been made at Yale. The Yale News is a sheet of four pages, which measures nine inches by six, and one of which is given to advertisements. "Our price (5 cents) is somewhat exorbitant," say the editors, who modestly keep their names in the background, "but it will be lowered as soon as we are assured of our financial support." In justification of their "innovation" they urge "the dulness of the times and the demand for news," which latter commodity they apparently propose to manufacture, inasmuch as the Record and Courant are supposed to publish all that happens at Yale.
THE college expenses of the Cornell students cannot be "ruinously extravagant," if the statement which a member of the class of '72 sends the Tribune is accurate: -
His expenses for a single year amounted to $ 184.68. The items in the account current were these : Clothing, $ 19.25 ; literature, $ 21.30 ; postage, $ 3.66; books (text and reference), $ 40.36 ; board, $ 34.06; rent and furniture, $ 37.10 ; car-fare, $ 14.50; washing, $1.59; miscellaneous, $9.56. The year's board bill, it seems, was only $ 34.06 ; and he affirms that he did not starve, but enjoyed perfect health. The members of the labor corps, he says, kept house, bought their own provisions, and cooked their food themselves.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for the University Crew, to February 7 are as follows : -
Subscribed. Paid.
Seniors $ 378.00 $149.00
Juniors 729.50 240.00
Sophomores 864.00 335.00
Freshmen 729.00 325.00
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$2,700.50 $1,049.00