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UNIVERSITY COURIER.
MISCELLANY.
COLLEGE NOTES.
Cornell University has lately received the princely gift of $1,000,000 for her library. Lehigh has also received a like sum for the same purpose.
Several of the Annapolis cadets concerned in the late mutiny have been arrested and consigned to prison.
Racine College, Wisconsin, has a new departure in the study of Greek. Instead of each member translating a portion of the lesson, the Professor translates the whole passage and afterwards lectures and comments upon it. The advantages are that it saves time. The students get the advantage of a good translation and better attention is secured. Monthly examinations are had upon these lectures and so each one is obliged to take notes.
The Crimson gives currency to the rumor that Dr. McCosh is to resign the presidency of Princeton, and that General McClellan will be his probable successor.
Five Sophomores have lately been suspended at Bowdoin for depriving a Freshman of his moustache. We can't imagine what use such a thing as a moustache could be put to other than the ornamentation of a some homely Freshman face.
The Catholics are lately having a revival on the subject of education. They intend to establish a University at Chicago and another at New York. The one at New York is to be equal to Yale or Harvard in finish and accoutrements.
The University of Kansas has five secret societies; Yale, nine; University of Michigan, thirteen; Cornell, ten; Columbia, eight; Union, six, and Harvard three.
FRATERNITY NOTES.
Delta Tau Delta made known her existence at Mt. Vernon College last June, after a sub rosa life of five years.
President Arthur retains a lively interest in his College fraternity, the Psi U. He recently gave $100 to the Union College chapter to aid in erecting a chapter house.
At Mount Union College the non-fraternity rule still exists, but we are happy to say, is virtually powerless. Fraternity men openly avow their allegiance in the face of a hostile faculty.-Crescent.
Subscription to the Scroll is compulsory. Each active member is taxed $1 per year to support it.
Every chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma is in a flourishing condition.-Golden Key.
Hon. W. D. Byrman, Speaker of the House in the Indiana Legislature, is a Beta Theta Pi.
Skeptics on the advantages of college secret societies are persons, who, more than others, demand from young men strict morality and upright conduct. They insist on the advantages of religious organizations; they declare that to escape the wiles of the devil, every young man should join a church. We do not propose to antagonize Christian influence or church organization. It is good. It is excellently human, even so considered by those who deny its divine origin. It is based upon the teachings of Christ. Yet to admit this is not to confess that other organizations are entirely devoid of good. There
was never an association so strong that it could not be aided by accessories in its work. So conscientious men and women gather in the fruits of ignorance when they accuse college fraternities of immoral aims and purposes. The fraternity requires an oath to follow virtue. It demands a pledge to abstain from the practice of vice. It gives open praise to the former and open censure to the latter. The college fraternity, guarded by the Christian spirit of its constitution, and the Christian character of many of its members, is the strongest moral factor of the college course.—Phi Gamma Delta.
Rumor has it that five new fraternities will enter the University of Michigan this year.—Scroll.
It is reported that the Shield, Phi Kappa Psi, has been compelled to suspend publication because some of the chapters would not pay their dues and give the paper their support. And worse than that, the alumnus who published the paper has lost in the operation. This is an irreparable loss to the fraternity, and it is to be hoped that the endeavors to revive the paper will be pre-eminently successful.—Crescent.
FUNNY NOTES.
Bennett says that his horse became very poor while riding across the Alps with Hanibal.
When the Berkleyan uses the term "flat-busted," it means the same thing that "dead-broke" does at the University of California. To "flunk" in an Eastern college means to "fizzle" in a Western.
A traveller, while about to enter a Western town, met a gang of cowboys just retiring. His first exclamation on meeting a citizen, was: "So you have got a college here, have you?" ___
CONNUBIAL COMPLIMENT.
While we in sadness half repine, Thou gaily leadeth to the shrine Of matrimony, the divin- Est one in sunny Kansas.
While thou art gay, we're semi-sad And wondering where there can be had A daisy whose indulgent dad Is burdened with Bonanzas.
Whilst thou art feasting with thy mate, We, like poor Lazarus, lie in wait Before an airy castle gate
And hug the vain presumption, That we will shortly "make a mash" Upon its hostess, who's a dash Ing widow with a mint of cash And "galloping consumption."
Thou art a Benedict, now Kid. And honestly we shake and bid You joy, rejoicing that you're rid Of batchelor vexations. Thy cup of single-blessedness Was full, and may you to excess Imbibe the dual bowl,and bless For aye thy new relations.
—Exchange.
EXCHANGE.
The University Mirror with "vita sine literis mors est" conspicuous as its motto, comes to us for the first
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