Show r ABOUT OTHER COLLEGES The students of Dartmouth's College have decided to abolish hazing The value of fellowships and scholarships scholarships scholarships scholar scholar- ships granted and waved tuition fees last year at Columbia amounted to Book Book Jok Review The annual exhibition of the Yale and Princeton gymnastic teams will this year take the form of a contest and a decision will be given by three judges selected from the leading gymnastic experts of country This contest will take place at New Haven some time in March 1899 and arrangements are being made for competitions in wrestling and fencing as aswell aswell well as an exhibition in boxing Penn Penn Penn- The corporation of Yale University has accepted the resignation of President Dwight President D wight Dwight refuses to concede concede concede con con- cede the request to defer his resignation until after the bi bi- centennial bicentennial celebration in 1901 and announces his purpose of adhering adhering adhering ad ad- hering to his determination to resign at atthe atthe atthe the end of this present academic year The University Hospital of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania is rapidly discharging the few remaining remaining remaining re re- sick solders from its wards During the last month the number has hasI I ii rI steadily decreased until on Dec 17 only six remained In all about two hundred and seventeen soldiers were received and healed at the hospital and of the number number number num num- ber only five died As a result of determination determination determination de de- termination of the United States government government government govern govern- ment to pay the Philadelphia hospitals one dollar a day for each military patient the University of Hospital will receive nearly A careful es estimate mate made in 1897 at atthe atthe atthe the close of the football season returned twenty two twenty two hundred elevens playing the game in this country In other words there are between twenty-five twenty thousand and thirty thousand players of the game in the United States This total unexpectedly unexpectedly unexpectedly large gives rise to a number of speculations It is a proof of of the universal universal universal uni uni- versal interest in ina a noble game It shows that football is not confined to college and school circles but is becoming a game of the people And it is an un- un argument for those to refute who are continually decrying the gridiron as a scene of physical injuries Thirty years ago there was no college interest in athletics The figure might be cut down to twenty years and yet be beas beas beas as true The centennial year 1876 was the real starting point from which college college college col col- lege athletics date Football gained foothold foothold foothold foot foot- hold slowly and down to 1885 was essentially an eastern game played only by the leading colleges and schools The extension of its province to the Mississippi and beyond has been a phase of the last decades decade's history Much of its universality is due ue to the migration of college graduates graduates graduates ates and to the securing of coachers by western institutions The enthusiasm of college men for their athletics especially during the years immediately following graduation has intensified the love for outdoor outdoor outdoor out out- door exercise in many centers and given r ft T football and kindred games a a footing The The Collego College Athlete I |