Kansas University Weekly.
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Notes From The College World.
Yale has graduated ninety-two college presidents.—Ex.
Ex-president Harrison is to lecture at Ann Arbor on March 22nd.
There are 3,042 graduates in American colleges and universities of whom 650 are women. Ex.
F. M. Mahin represents Kansas this year in the inter-state oratorical contest between Normal schools.
The ladies of the Kansas State Normal are to have charge of the next two issues of The Salute, their weekly paper.
Iowa University debates with Chicago University in Chicago Friday night, February 5th. Each school is represented by three men.
A bill has been introduced in the Nebraska legislature prohibiting participation in or attendance upon a foot ball game in that state.
Last year's enrollment at the Kansas State Normal was one thousand seven hundred and thirty-five students, according to the Student's Salute.
It is reported that Postmaster General Wilson will accept the presidency of Washington and Lee University after the expiration of his term in the Cabinet.—Ex.
The U. of M.Daily publishes a long list of books and pamphlets published by members of the faculty of that school.The list is very complimentary to their faculty.
Ann Arbor also debates with Chicago University in the near future. The final preliminary contest for the "U. of M." was held Saturday evening, January 30th.
The editor-in-chief of the Lantern, the Ohio University paper, has been suspended from the University because of an editorial in which members of the faculty were criticized.
Hamilton College has recently received $25,000 for a new Science building. The college student should note the fact that a large accumulation of wealth is not necessarily an evil, but that oft times it is the means by which great good is accomplished.
Upon the new gateway at the entrance to the Cornell campus will be placed this inscription: "To enter that daily thou mayest become more learned and thoughtful; to depart, that daily thou mayest become more useful to thy country aud to mankind."—The Polytechnic.
Three instructors of Michigan University were recently arrested while spying around in an attempt to secure evidence against saloonkeepers who were thought to be violating the liquor law. The gentlemen soon explained matters and were freed from the embarassing situation.
Prof. Dyche lectured before a full house Saturday evening. The lecture was very interesting and brought out many interesting features about Alaska, "The Home of the Earthquake and the Volcano." Student's Herald, Manhattan, Kansas.
It would seem, if we may judge from statements in some of our best exchanges, that college athletics as now conducted in several of the leading colleges are not very successful from a financial standpoint; the expenses in many cases exceeding the receipts of the athletic associations.
The following action has been taken by the Harvard faculty: "The Administrative Board of the College, holding that the handing in by a student of written work not his own, is dishonorable, proposes to separate from the college a student guilty of such conduct, and to post his name on the college bulletin boards."
She stood beneath the chandelier With eyes and cheeks aglow;
He promptly saw his chance for bliss,
And pressed upon her lips a kiss,
And blessed that mistletoe,
It happened that her pa came in;
Oh, ruin, wreck and woe!
His boot was big and well applied,
And soon the young man stood outside,
And cursed that missile toe. —Ex.
He saw a pretty maiden, who Upon him smiled a bit.
Quoth he, "I think I'll walk with you."
But she said, "Aber nit." —Ex.