Show ABOUT OTHER COLLEGES Johns Hopkins University this year has an enrollment of students In the volunteer army at Manila there is a university club composed exclusively exclusive exclusive- ly lyof of college men I The athletic grounds of Harvard are areto areto areto to be improved the handsome sum of having been subscribed for that purpose by the Harvard alumni living in Boston Nebraska University among American Ameri Ameri- can colleges has the honor according to the Vidette le Re Reporter orter of having sent the largest number of volunteers to the Cuban Cuban Cuban Cu Cu- ban War In that institution at the nations nation's call to arms students left their studies The will of the late Edward Austin of Boston provides some magnificent endowments endowments endowments en en- for five eastern colleges Harvard University is to get a half a million dollars the Massachusetts Institute Institute Institute tute of Technology the sum of and among Radcliffe College Roanoke College and the Tuskegee Institute the sum of is to be distributed The income of all these sums the will provides provides provides pro pro- vides is to be paid to needy and meritorious meritorious meritorious mer mer- students and teachers to assist them in the payment of their studies A good many colleges are fighting off taxes nowadays but none so far as heard from with so much reason or so much method as Stanford University At present the State of California gobbles gobbles gobbles gob gob- bles up one-forth one of the university's annual inco income e. e Stanford feels that it ought to be exempt but the only way to secure exemption is by procuring an f Ji A 33 l a Ui amendment to the Constitution of the State That is a troublesome matter in California as in New York takes at least two t years year Each branch of the f State Legislature must pass the amendment amendment amend amend- ment by a two-thirds two majority and after that it must be ratified by the people at atthe atthe atthe the polls To accomplish this labor a tax-exemption tax club has been organized which includes the students and alumni of Stanford and all sympathizers with the movement The club has a central executive executive executive ex ex- committee which will carry carryon on the work very much as a political campaign is carried on It has already sent two J j emissaries through the State to interest legislators in behalf of the university while a literary bureau works through the press of the State The University of California which is doubtless itself exempt exempt exempt ex- ex empt from State taxation is represented to be heartily in favor of the exemption j of Stanford 1 T There here has come to be a national pride and interest in the two great Californian i t universities and thousands of Eastern s 's readers who follow their rise and development development devel- devel Jj J j with attention will rejoice to see Stanford get the reasonable relief for which she asks ji Har Harpers Harper's ers er's Weekly |