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Cornell won in the annual debate with Pennsylvania. The decision was unanimous for the former.
There are forty State Colleges in the United States, some of the states having more than one. During the year 1896 the total enrollment for these state colleges was 32,000.
Yale and Harvard have signed a five years' contract providing for annual meets in football, baseball, track and field athletics, and rowing. It also stipulates that all contests except rowing shall take place on college grounds, and the gate receipts should be equally divided.—Ex.
Edward Everett Hale has accepted the invitation of the Senior Class, University of Nebraska, to deliver the commencement address. Baker Orange.
The Pennsylvania State legislature has been asked to appropriate $1,000,000 to enable the University of Pennsylvania to improve its several departments of study.—Ex.
The winner of the Iowa State Contest this year is a lady, Miss Alice Starbuck, of Penn College. Her oration is entitled "What is Mine."-Ex.
Dr. Woodward president of the board of curators of the University of Missouri has resigned his position. He gives as his reason for so doing the fact that he feels his inability to do the institution justice with the short appropriation granted by the Missouri legislature, and he wishes to be freed of the great responsibility resting upon him. Ex-Govenor Stone has been mentioned as Dr. Woodward's successor.
President James H. Canfield of the University of Ohio, formerly a professor in the University of Kansas, will deliver the commencement address at Illinois University in June.
The seniors of Wisconsin University have decided not to wear the cap and gown, the vote standing fifty-seven against to thirty-one for.
President Gilman, of John Hopkins University, has summed up in the following manner the objects of a college education:
1. Concentration, or the ability to hold exclusively and persistently to one subject.
2. Distribution, or power to arrange and classify known facts.
3. Retention, or power to hold facts.
4. Expression, or power to test what you know.
5. Power of jndgment, or making sharp discrimination between that weich is false, and that which is temporal, and that which is essential.—Palo Alto.
Eyes were made to droop,
Cheeks were made to blush.
Hair was made to crimp and curl,
Lips were made—Oh hush!—Ex.
The conscientious freshmen work
To get their lessons tough,
The juniors flunk, the sophomores shirk,
But the seniors, ah! they bluff.—Ex.
He went away to college,
A sheepskin was his quest,
But the chase for it was bootless,
As a pigskin pleased him best.—Ex.
"How goes it now at college. John?"
A father thus petitioned.
When quickly came the answer back;
"I'm very well conditioned,"—Hobart Herald
Professor Dyche never fails in his lectures to advise people to keep away from Alaska. The only thing he thinks there is any money in up there is the raising of foxes for their pelts on one of the small islands where they can not get away.-Daily Cardinal.
Underwear.
No other house in town can show such values or variety in styles in underwear.
W. Bromelsick.