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The University Courier.
EXCHANGES.
Old gold has been adopted as the college color of the University of Chicago.
University of Pennsylvania has students enrolled from every state in the Union.
Only a small fraction of one per cent. of the voters of the U. S. are college educated men, yet they hold fifty-eight per cent. of the highest offices. - Ex.
Any student desiring to publish short stories or poems, will be given space in the COURIER; such articles to be subject to the approval of the Literary editor.
The Review for February is a very creditable number, containing the winning orations both of K. U. and of the state contest. The editorial pages are especially well written and the editor speaks with no uncertain tone on questions of interest to all students.
During the last forty years the population in America has increased 165 per cent. while the number of college students has increased 265 per cent. The sudden increase from 1880 to 1890 is still more striking. In this decade the population increased twenty-five per cent., while the increase of students was over fifty per cent. The Illini.
It would seem that chapel exercises are not more of a success at Northwestern University than with us. Speaking of the small attendance at chapel exercises, the Northwestern says: "Some days there has been but one member of the faculty present at chapel exercises, and it is noticeable that the seats of the upper class men are coming to be about as well filled as those of the faculty."
An exchange has the following:
But her sweetheart is the man in the moon, So I guess I am not in the race, But I'll go up in a balloon To break the old gentleman's face.
ATHLETICS.
About twenty-five men have already been dropped from the training list at Princeton.
A few more days of such weather and our athletic field will be dry enough on which to practice.
The World's Fair athletic grounds will seat 35,000 people and will contain a half mile oval track.
Jim Kelsey is getting into splendid form and will retain his enviable reputation as first catcher of the U.
Dartmouth Glee Club will accompany its base-ball team on its spring trips and give concerts wherever the nine plays.
Captain Crawford of the University of Michigan base-ball team is busy constructing machines for practice in base sliding.
Every college paper throughout the country is filled with base-ball notes and contestants for positions on the teams are hard at work.
Wilbur Kinzie, our famous half-back and excaptain of the foot-ball team, left yesterday for Chicago, where he will take a position as one of the Columbian guards.
U. of Penn. has accepted a challenge from the rowing committee of Cornell University and the crew will meet early in the summer. The course will be four miles.
Lee Phillips is kept busy figuring on how he can keep his foot in a twelve-inch pitcher's box as required by the late base-ball rules. He might make use of the pons asinorum.
Mr. Moody informs us that Illinois has already expressed a desire to meet us on the gridiron field. The desire will be gratified and if possible a game will be arranged for November 11, game to be played at Lawrence. Then we'll have another opportunity to hear the S. U. I. yell.