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From The University (of Pa ) Courier.
As is well known, the Faculty of the University of Chicago has some very advanced rules on various subjects, and these are the means sometimes of bringing the Faculty into conflict with the students. One of these rules is that every student must exercise in the gymnasium for three quarters of an hour on four days of the week—compulsory physical culture. Some of the students rebelled at this; the self-supporting students in particular, giving the very weighty reason that they have no time to attend "gymn" classes. But the Faeulty is resolved that the rule must be binding on all alike, and they have suspended several of the students who have disregarded it. What the outcome will be is doubtful.
The Corporation and Board of Overseers at Harvard have rescinded the rule requiring two years of resident study at Harvard of every candidate for the degree for Doctor of Philosophy, or Doctor of Science. Hereafter the period of residence required will be one year. This action is in response to a recommendation made to the Governing Boards of American Universities by the Convention of Graduate Students, which met in Houston Hall the first of the year. In making this change, there will be no lessening of the requirements for degrees, but the design is to stimulate intermigration between different Universities, so that a graduate student can pass one year at one, and then one at another. Thus, he can gain the benefit of the different lines of thought and receive a broader education. This action of Harvard will be welcomed.
The University of Virginia will hold a summer session of its Law Scool this year. Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, will deliver a series of lectures, and other prominent men will be invited to lecture also.
Another disturbing question has arisen in college circles. Are female students of colleges entitled to the same privileges as men or not? The Athletic Association of the University of California has refused to allow the "co-eds" playing upon the basket ball teams to wear the big "C" upon their sweaters. The girls charge unfair discrimination.
The first annual track and field meeting of the Southern Inter-collegiate Atheletic Association will be held on the campus of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, May fifteenth, 1896. It will be under the supervision of the Atheletic Association of Vanderbilt. This Southern association comprises thirteen of the largest and best universities of the South, and great interest is being taken in this initial meeting. It is expected soon to increase the membership above the unlucky number.
The magnificent new site of Columbia University was decided on last Saturday morning. It is called Morningside Heights, and is said to be the most ideal situation of any University in the world. It is located at the northern end of Manhattan Island, on the highest point of the island, midway between Riverside and Morningside Parks, overlooking the Hudson on the West. The land and buildings on it at the time of purchase cost $2,000,000. Twelve new buildings have been projected at a cost of $4,- 000,000. Five of them are now in course of erection. The library building will be a magnificent structure, its estimated cost alone being $1,000,000, there being now 200,000 volumes to fill it. Many prominent men were present at the exercises, and all were ungrudging in their enthusiasm over Columia's outlook for the future. President Seth Low was referred to as one of the great leaders in University development in this country. He has certainly done a wonderful work during the years of his administration.
SPECTATOR.