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Kansas University Weekly.
Notes From the College World.
Football "benefits" are becoming popular in college circles.
Yale has nine of last year's baseball team in championship games. -Ex.
A college song book containing Yale Glee Club songs has recently been published.
The dramatic club of Minnesota University presented "The Rivals" on March 1st.
Forty candidates have applied for positions on the Wisconsin University baseball team.
Hereafter Cornell will confer but the single degree of A. B. to students completing the four year course.
There are 246 Yale men holding professorships in American colleges. Thirty-four of these have positions at Yale. - Ex.
Mr. C. F. Bell, of the Colorado University, represents Colorado in the interstate contest to be held at Columbia, Mo., next May.
The Freshman and Sophomore classes at Ann Arbor have held an indoor meet. The Sophomores won the contest by a score of 32 to 21.
The Oberlin Review from Oberlin College, Ohio and The Daily Cardinal from Wisconsin University are among our new exchanges.
The young ladies of Michigan University have shown their interest in athletics by holding an indoor meet. A banner was awarded to the victorious team.
Ex-Secretary of State Olney has declined the chair of International Law at Harvard, offered him by President Elliott. He will practice law in Boston. U.of M.Daily.
California University students rejoice in the fact that they can train out-of-doors throughout the whole year while eastern athletic associations are compelled to hold indoor meets.
A Summer School of Law will be held by the University of Michigan next summer. The course will last eight weeks and is designed especially for those preparing for examinations for admission to the bar and also for those who desire a knowledge of law as a part of their general education.
A movement is on foot in Minnesota University to honor debating teams who defeat other colleges by printing their debates in form at the expense of the University.—S. U. I. Quill.
The Seniors of Michigan University are having their measurements taken for caps and gowns. The Daily suggests that the custom has not been very generally adopted heretofore but hopes that more will show their approval by wearing them this year.
The Yale-Harvard debate to be held on March 26 will be on the subject; "Resolved, That the United States should adopt definitely the single gold standard and should decline to enter a bimetallic league even if Great Britain, France and Germany should be willing to enter such a league."
There are now ten daily college publications in the United States. They are the following: Cornell Sun, The Pennsylvanian, The Yale News, The Daily Palo Alto, The Harvard Crimson, The Princetonian, The Brown Herald, The Daily Cardinal, (Wisconsin University,) The U.of M.Daily, and the College Spirit.
A bill has been introduced into the Nebraska legislature the object of which is to abolish all Greek letter fraternities in the state university. Should it pass no one will be permitted the privileges of the institution if he becomes a member of any such fraternity. A similiar bill has been introduced into the South Carolina legislature and has now passed its second reading.
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