The subscriptions to the Nathan Gest Memorial Library at Williams have reached $1,000, and the library will soon be opened to the students.
A surpliced choir is contemplated for the college chapel at Trinity. This is the latest novelty in the way of making compulsory prayers attractive.
The university nine use the cage on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, from 2 to 4, and on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 3 to 4.30.
The other colleges, except Princeton, seem to have adopted a waiting policy in regard to the confirmation or rejection of the athletic resolutions.
Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 P. M. Question: "Resolved, That Wendell Phillips' course in regard to slavery was that of a true statesman."
Out of 38,054 alumni from fifty-eight American colleges and universities since 1852, 3,577, or about nine per cent, are recorded as physicians; 9,991, or twenty-one per cent, as clergymen, and 6,105, or ten per cent, as lawyers. [Ex.
St. Paul's Society has elected the following officers for the coming half-year: L. W. Batten, '85, president; J. H. Gardiner, '85, vice-president; C. C. Burnett, '86, secretary; E. E. Hamlin '86, treasurer; B. F. Cox, '87, librarian; W. A. Gardner, '84, chorister. It was also voted that all members failing to pay their annual assessments after having been duly notified, shall be dropped from the rolls.
Some of the freshmen and sophomores at Cornell are grumbling because practice in the gymnasium is required of the two lower classes. The grumblers regard the requirement as an infringement of their "natural rights," but a little reflection, says the Cornell Sun, ought to convince them that this is the only manner in which the benefit of physical exercise will be received by those who are most in need of it. So long as gymnasium practice is voluntary a few of the athletes of the university, who are in need of very little physical exercise, will do most of the work in the gymnasium for the entire university, while those students to whom from their physical condition gymnastic exercise is especially necessary, seldom see the interior of the gymnasium. This carelessness of many students as to their physical condition is one of the worst concomitants in our educational system, and one which is especially to be guarded against. [Ex.