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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Our Continent is to be changed to a quarto of thirty-two pages - a decided improvement.

There are over 145 Hebrew students from the universities of Moscow and St. Petersburg recently arrived in New York.

In the year before the war it is said that North Carolina University ranked next to Harvard in the number of its undergraduates.

Columbia affirms positively that she don't want any co-education. What Columbia does want is education without the co, and plenty of it. - [Tiger.

Profound and comprehensive advice given by an aged woman-hater to his nephew : "Shun the blondes, avoid the brunettes and fly from all the others!" - [Ex.

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In a recent trial involving the validity of an English patent a senior wrangler, who was employed as an expert witness, was examined by another senior wrangler and cross-examined by a third.

Father, looking over report : "What does this mean, my son - 'Must pass another examination?" Son : "Well, you see, several of us are trying for first in that branch, and our papers were so nearly alike that we have to try it again." - [Princetonian.

The senior class at Columbia has adopted a series of resolutions earnestly protesting against co-education. The following is the principal resolution :

Resolved, That it is the fixed opinion and firm conviction of the senior class of Columbia College that the co-education of the sexes is undesirable from an educational as well as from a social and a moral standpoint, and that its introduction here would be a fatal blow to the future welfare and prosperity of the institution.

Of the late President Rogers the Boston Transcript says : "The hundreds of men, young and old, on whom his influence bore, think of him gratefully and affectionately. All testimony is alike as to the power of his personality. He was the creator of the Institute of Technology, the inspirer of its teachers and pupils. His direct influence through contact has been very great. At present probably less than ten per cent, of the intellectual leaders of the United States have reached the moral turning-point which President Rogers long ago passed."

Upon hearing of the death of Mr. Darwin the students of Kieff University drew up and sent off for transmission to his son the following telegram : "The students of Kieff University deplore with you the loss of the grand master and buissant soldier of science. The Russian youth bows with respect before the profound genuis who has revealed to man the mysteries of the struggle for existence, has assigned to him his place in nature, has indicated to thought the way of indefinite development, and who, by his own example, has shown how truth ought to be served. The memory of your father is immortal as his glory." The Russian Censorship suppressed this telegram.

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