Show ABOUT OTHER COLLEGES The girls of the University of Nevada have a new basket basket ball ball field All Harvard students who enlisted last June have been given their full years year's credit Of late almost all of the college papers are devoted to reports of successful successful suc suc- r or unsuccessful foot-ball foot games The Univ University of North Corolina ad admitted admitted admitted ad- ad women for the first time this fall Only four women took advantage I of the opportunity to become students there The University of Michigan recently raised about 2000 for the benefit of athletics Ot at this money halt came from the various fraternities three of which headed the list with a hundred dollars each Some time ago the Senior class of Nebraska had a II sneak day as they called it They cut all their classes and played with childrens children's toys on the campus They marched into chapel carrying kites whistles and dolls The text that morning was II But now I have become a man I have put away childish things Dr Gudeman of the Wistar Institute is setting up the skeleton of a huge whale five eighty-five feet long This whale was brought from California in 1888 by bythe bythe bythe the late Dr Cope and given to the University of Pennsylvania As there was no available place in which to exhibit exhibit exhibit ex ex- hibit the specimen most of the vertebra were stored in boxes in Memorial Hall and the skull was placed in a coal Not long ago the skull was slightly damaged in the haste of removing it from the coal yard where a fire had broken out The University Uni unable to find room for the skeleton recently presented presented presented pre pre- it to the Wistar Institute of Anatomy Few American Universities can show a steady growth in all that makes a college col col- lege useful and great comparable to the growth of the Cornell University At Atthe Atthe Atthe the commencement in June last only the thirtieth since the founding of the institution President Schurman made a I a. a most remarkable report of the progress of the University up to the end of tl the e school year 1897 Some of the statistics statistics statistics statis statis- tics are startling and cannot but make us who are interested in Utah's highest highe t educational institute green with envy In the last fifteen years the library has increased from about books and pamphlets to about The value of the general equipment books and apparatus has increased from about to over the value of buildings from about to over the invested income income- producing funds from to receipts for tuition from to in addition to which N New ew York state students are educated educated educated edu edu- free the total income from to the total property from to To this last should be add added d the value of unsold western lands estimated at Since June 1897 other gifts have been received One of these is the palatial mansion of the late Henry W W. Sage fora for a free infirmary for or students together with cash as a perpetual endowment endowment endowment en en- for its maintenance Another is the gift of about 1500 to o establish establish establish lish and endow a medical department which it is intended will become the best equipped and endowed Medical Medic l College in the world The Faculty has likewise increased in 88 1887 there were 88 members of the teaching force in 98 1897 there were excluding the Faculty of Forestry and the Faculty of Medicine The students too have increased in number from in 82 1881 to 2120 in 1897 98 1897 98 this too in spite of the fact of the great increasing severity of ent entrance ance requirements In 1837 there were conferred conferred conferred con con- 93 bachelors bachelor's degrees in 1898 there were graduated students or more than there were students in attendance attendance attendance attend attend- ance in 1882 83 The institution is supported for the most part by Ly tuition fees equal to only about 20 per cent of the needed income interest on invested funds and a few small grants Not long ago the state spent for an additional building building building build build- ing for the agricultural department and now appropriates per year to assist in its maintenance it recently also appropriated for lor buildings for the Veterinary department and nd per year for maintenance still stillmore stillmore stillmore more recently acres of forest land landin landin landin in the Adirondacks as an experimental laboratory for the Forestry department |