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like heroes at Crecy and Poitiers. This last paper is strikingly illustrated with two full-page battle pictures. The "Very Little Folk" department is quite interesting.
CLIPPINGS.
THERE was a young maid in New Haven,
Over whom all the students were raving,
Till a Theolog. tall
Got ahead of them all,
By betrothing this maid of New Haven.
For this Theolog. bold, I've often been told,
Though of Scriptural puns a rejection,
Will oft snatch a kiss
From his dear Jenny-sis,
In the Exodus after the lecture.—Yale Record
FATHER (who is always trying to teach his son how to act while at table)—"Well, John, you see that when I have finished eating I always leave the table." John—"Yes sir; and that is all you do leave."-Ex.
AND then I think of one who in his youthful beauty dyed The fair moustache that grew up and faded in its pride. With the cold, moist steel he shaved it; shaved lin and
With the cold, moist steel he shaved it; shaved lip and cheek and chin,
And he wept that one so lovely should have a growth so thin.
Yet not unmeet was it that one like that moustache of his, So gentle and so beautiful, should vanish from his phiz.
Homer.
COLLEGE WORLD.
Portugal has only one university.
West Point graduated sixty-seven cadets this year.
THE first college paper was published seventy nine years ago—Ex.
Two hundred of the 250 colleges in this country publish papers. -Ex.
Dartmouth has had an endowment of $10,000 to found a chair of Anglo-Saxon.
Three thousand seven hundred Professors are employed in the colleges throughout the United States.
The University of Colorado opened last month with one hundred pupils, ten of these being Freshmen.
William H. Vanderbilt has recently given $100,000 to Vanderbilt University, for the purpose of erecting a scientific hall and gymnasium.
A student of the Iowa University recovered $300 damages from the Democratic judges of election, for refusing to let him vote there last October.
PROF. WINCHELL, who was obliged to leave Vanderbilt University because of his views of the antiquity of man, etc., is re-appointed Prof. of Geology in Michigan State University.
WILLIAMS College has graduated thirty member of Congress, five U. S. Senators, eight Governors, sixteen Judges of the Supreme Court,thirty-two Presidents of colleges,and 894 clergymen.
There are 2,886 matriculated students at the University in Berlin. There are, moreover,1,577 persons from various academies and schools who have the privilege of attending the University lectures. Great Britain sends ten students, and America thirty-three.Among the professors are Von Ranke, the historian; Zeller, author of the History of Philosophy, Helmholtz, Lepsius, Mommsen,Curtius and Weber.
Cornell enters one hundred and twenty-five freshmen, Princeton one hundred and ten, Amherst one hundred and six, Dartmouth one hundred, Brown sixty, Hobart twenty-seven, Trinity twenty-three, Rochester forty. Wellesley has one hundred fresh-women; Colby college, Me., has one lady student. Dartmouth enters two colored freshmen. Yale had two hundred and twenty-eight applicants, of whom twenty-five were rejected, and all but seventy-five heavily conditioned.
At the twenty German universities during the half year, there have been 18,738 students. Of this number, 2,248 were studying theology, 5,106 law, 3,537 medicine, and 7,657 philosophy.
Columbia College, New York, had an aggregate attendance last year of 1,436 students, the largest in the country, Michigan University having 1,372 and Harvard 1,332.
Harvard has engaged a Professor of Chinese, Ko Klum Huo, the necessary expenses having been met for three years to come by private subscription. The plan was approved by Boston merchants, who feel the advantages of a speaking knowledge of Chinese to any one connected with Eastern trade.
Missouri State University has an attendance of 500. It was established about the same time as Michigan State University, which had last year 1,372. Probably the lack of progress in the former institution is owing to the decided democracy of the State of Missouri, and consequent lack of interest in higher education.