Show i Exchanges and Reviews i. i rIER Gl The first nugget of gold ever found in ia California California California Cali Cali- fornia will be on exhibition at the V Worlds World's orld's Fair Yale Freshmen will not be permitted to participate participate participate par par- this year in intercollegiate baseball This is punishment for recent alleged acts of DIFFERENT CAUSES SAME CAUSES SAME RESULT 4 love that makes the world go round j These words we often hear But the same phenomenon is found In drinking wine Avine and beer ale rale Tale Lit Before the Berkshire Historical Society in Springfield on the of February Prof John Bascom of Williams College read an essay on Mark Hopkins His opinion was Avas that the best published work of the president ex-president of Williams is his baccalaureate sermon 1 Senator Proctor will introduce a bill in the Senate providing fora for great national university university university sity at Washington D. D C. C The bill provides for the issuing of worth of 5 per percent percent percent cent government bonds which are to be turned over to the new University j and the money accruing from the interest on these bonds will Avill establish a fund which will Avill ensure the salaries of the most competent men available By bringing the Smithsonian Institute and the national museum in close connection with Avith the new institution it will have advantages paralleled paralleled paralleled paral paral- by no other educational establishment We Ve clip the following from the New York Weekly Tribune When a mere boy the late Justice ustice Lamar was Avas apparently so dull that his mother was Avas in despair of his ever Becoming anything qt at school A relative to whom she confided her fears took Lucius in hand and as follows Cant learn Latin eh ehNo No No sir Or 01 Greek No sir Or 01 mathematics No sir What do you do doin doin doin in your debating society Oh I talk to its members I dont don't find that very hard Then sir go back to school and learn how to talk and how to talk well Avell Harvard has graduated students in years of its existence The present enrollment is 2613 which is the largest in the United States The Students Student's Journal says that Prof Vernon Vernon Vernon Ver- Ver non L. L Kellogg of Kansas University has gone to California alifornia for the purpose of studying the bugs bug of the auriferous commonwealth We Ve hope he will succeed in examining some of its big bugs An important acquisition will soon be made to the many courses now offered at the John ohn Hopkins University viz a medical school In Inthis Inthis Inthis this school women will be given the same opportunities opportunities op- op for study as the men This is made possible through the generous liberality of Miss Garrett of Baltimore Ex Ex What is the formula Professor For maidens up to date The wise man smiled and quickly wrote S S. S F. F 98 t what this scroll U Pray ma may mean mystic Said she the Vassar Va pert Why one part saint and one part sage And ninety-eight ninety a flirt flirt Ex The faculty of Williams has been considering considering considering consider consider- ing for a long time the advisability of granting a new degree from that college The original idea was to g give ge e the degree of Bachelor of Letters to students substituting modern languages languages languages lan lan- for Greek This however was felt kobe to ko tobe o obe be too narrow and insufficient The faculty have however decided to recommend to the trustees a plan apian to grant the degree of 01 Bachelor of Philosophy which represents the preparation preparation preparation tion requisite for any of the many courses which lead to the d doctorate of philosophy The Ariel Aric The class in advanced English composition were asked recently to write a composition on How to Extract Sunshine from Cabbages The following is one of those handed in Extract from the La Lawrence wrence Lightning Feb Sunshine from Cabbages Cabbages Cabbages-A A Great Discovery Discovery ery ery-A ery A German Professor Discovers a Method of Extracting Sunshine from Cabbages Cabbages Cab Cab- bages Old bages-Old Old I-Old Old Sol no Longer in It Berlin Feb- Feb 2 Prof Wilhelm Vilhelm Gottmann of he University of Berlin has discovered a method of extracting sunshine from cabbages I I k An old German monk of the tenth century it seems seeing had discovered the process but was vas L blown up while experimenting in his labo laboratory laboratory labora labora- atory a- a tory before he succeeded in making it public Prof Gottmann accidentally found fragments of f the monks monk's journal which had found their way into the bottom of a barrel of sauerkraut The recipe is very simple being as follows Put two parts of sulphuric acid with one part of the oxide of lead into a glass receiver stir 1 steadily for four hours with Avith a solid gold ladle and then add four parts of extract of lightning bugs This last must be absolutely pure When this preparation has been left standing for forty eight hours it will if applied to cabbage cabbage cab cab- bage leaves produce instantaneous sunshine Prof declares that in his opinion this discovery renders the sun practically useless for all future time Prof Johannes of Vir however is of the opinion that it will take at least a year to raise enough cabbages to start the world off on the new plan Later Later Later-A A dispatch from London announces that Prof Huxley refuses to believe in the discovery discovery dis dis- discovery covery until he is given ocular demonstration He says We Ve do not know Students Students' Students Students' Jour four JournaL naL lla I Whittier the poet and the man has been personally described quite as often as any of the New England authors His private life has been searched out in every detail until grateful and pleased as he became in later years with all friendly recognition he was lead even in his verse to deprecate the p publicity which the simple manners of his homely existence 0 O living friends who love me 0 dear ones gone above me a Careless of other fame L I 1 leave to you vou my name Hide it from idle praises Save it from evil phrases r Why when dear lips that it Are dumb should strangers wake it 4 This begins an article on Whittier in the February I Harpers en The whole article is of great interest but the portion relating to slavery anti struggles is the most interesting Were Vere it not a well established and unquestioned unquestioned historical fact that such scenes as are here related occurred in New England even the fictitious writer who presented such scenes would be thought to have over stepped the J reasonable bounds of fiction It seems 1 ble to us that men are now living who can remember remember re re- member the time when a man would be mobbed mobbed mob mob- bed and perhaps killed for speaking against human slavery in the land of the Puritans How great a debt we owe to our poet prophets we do not know but we feel that when t the e great roll of names of those who helped to rid our land of the curse of slavery shall be made it will contain the names of our liberty loving poets side by side with the names of our statesmen and soldiers The article we refer to can be found on page Read it by all means Rev Dr W. W J. J Tucker was unanimously elected president of Dartmouth College a few da days ys ago The position was Avas offered him about a year vear ago but he declined the honor Through the inducements of President Eliot of Harvard and other friends he has decided to accept His election is hailed with by the Dartmouth's graduates and all have faith in his ability to settle the different factions factions factions fac fac- in the college i 4 i M. M E. E in his recently published published history of the United States gives a very j 1 complete sketch of that great and good man 1 Abraham Lincoln who was a man of remarkable ble character and appearance The rough exterior covered a noble mind and heart that bore malice toward none with charity for all In his death the South felt that it had lost its best friend the North its grandest President and the colored people their ema em em- a His name is fitly coupled with that of Washington and The Martyred Pre President ident will ever remain sacred in the the- memory of the American people k 0 j THE OLDEST UNIVERSITY There is a prevalent idea amongst students that the worlds world's oldest university is in Europe Europe- The inaccuracy of this belief is shown in the f fact that in the tenth and eleventh centuries the university at Fez Africa was Avas almost if not quite the only seat of Christian leafing learing in the world It is a noteworthy fact that students j flocked from Andalusia France Fiance and even from Engl England nd to this university at Fez before universities universities universities uni uni- existed in either Paris Oxford Cambridge Cambridge Cam Carn bridge or Bologna Fez is day to-day the the principal western seat of Mohammedan theol theol- ogy Tire The The Pennsylvanian 1 |