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I AMERICA’S FIRST FREE SCHOOL First Free Public School Building. How many people could answer the question. "Where was the first public school located?” The honor, for such It is, belongs to the early pioneers of Dorchester, Mass., who, on May 20, 1639, authorized the construction of a scnoolhouse which ^as to be free to the general public. In this day and age, when a school is talked of there arises to the mind’s eye a magnificent structure of brick and stone, three or four stories high. Imagine, if you can, the youth of the present times going to school in one little room, the walls of which were constructed of boards roughly hewn from the tree. Such, however, was the first free public school iu America, if not in the world, and for over seventy-five years this little building did good service in the cause of education. Although called free, it is a fact not generally known that no one was al lowed to attend who did not possess an elementary knowledge of the three R.’s. Thus came into existence the private schools of which Samuel Mnn del was the mas'er from 1797 to 1825, where scholars who were desirous of entering the public school could gain the necessary rudiments. This private school was originally located on what is now known as Hendry street, but was afterward removed to Bowdoin , EXCUSE THOUGHT OUT CUICKLY. Butler of Speaker Cannon a Man of Resources. Speaker Cannon is the most re sourceful of men. Recently a visitor called at his residence while the Speaker was dining. He was inform ed that Mr. Cannon was not at home, but that he was expected to return immediately. The mission was an important one and the butler who answered the bell was so informed. He was requested to state whether Speaker Cannon was really absent or whether he was in and not “at home.” The butler said with some hesitation, his employer was really out. The caller promised to return in a short time, but as he was leaving the door he said to the butler: “The business is really that of the Speaker, and is important to him.” The caller started to walk down the front stairway, when the door was opened suddenly and the Speaker and the butler appeared. “Come right in, my boy,” said the Speaker. “What can I do for you?” While Mr. Cannon was speaking, the butler, who held the hat of Mr. Cannon in his hands and brushed some invisible dust from it, declared .•“the Speaker came in back wav.” The Mandel Private School House. street, there to be used as a general merchandise store until It was torn down some few weeks ago. In 1714 it was decided that a new public school was needed, so a build ing sligh.ly larger than the original was erected at a cost of $115, but the increasing demand for education soon compelled its removal, and a more commodious structure was erected, but of the same rough material, its Speaker Cannon and his butler, when they cooked up this excuse, manifestly overlooked the fact that there is no back door to the Cannon house. The Gift. The fairy paused with wand uplifted:— "Sweet Mother, say, what gift shall't Pe? Wilt have thy child forever praised Through flaming Fame's eternity? "Wilt give her power to stir men's hearts Through Beauty's might and Passion's sway ? Or shall her song's ecstatle parts Move raptured multitudes to pray? “Wilt have her Jewels to outshine Those of the gem famed Orient? Or deck her from a richer mine With fairer pearls of Love's Content?” "Nay.” spoke the Mother, "I'm of mmd Still to require the gift shall be Greater than all of these combined: Giant her one grace—Serenity." —Anna Marble in New York Herald. Wulf Fries “Without Notes.” This is a story of the late Wulf Fries, the well known violoncellist, told: While on a concert tour through some of the smaller New England towns, a local paper gave him the fol lowing notice: “Mr. Wulf Fries of Boston played two beautiful solos on the ’cello with out his notes; what would it have 1 been had he played with his notes!” John Hancock’s Summer Mansion. rafters being hewn out of solid oak, and it stands to this day a reminder that our forefathers built better than they knew when they established the first free public school. Names familiar to all the people of New England appeared on its roll, among them being the Humphreys, the Pierces, the Clapps, the Capens. and last, but not least, Edward Everett, who In later years made a pilgrimage to Dorchester to look once again on the school he attended as a boy. Afier outliving its usefulness as a school the building was sold and re moved by its purchaser to the corner of Pleasant and Commercial (now known as Hancock) streets. Very few know that John Hancock once had his summer residence on Commercial street and that after the war of the revolution the citizens in a burst of patriotism decided to honor the sign er of the Declaration of Independence, and so changed it to Hancock street. Stripped of all its former glory, the third building to be used for a public school is now used as a private resi dence by descendants of those who authorized its erection, although not now located on its original site, which was on the western slope of Meeting House Hill, where to this day can be seen the bowlder which formed a part of its foundation and fireplace. THE SPREAD OF ADULTERATION. Few Materials Made Now as in the “Good Old Days.” The London Lancet calls attention to the wholesale manner in which the materials which keep us warm during the day and the blankets which cover us at night are adulterated. The silk dress of the lady of a hundred years ago rustled as she moved on account of the goodness of the silk; now it rustles with the 36 per cent of salts of tin used to sophisticate it. The lady of the period in her silk dress is, indeed, a sort of “woman in armor." Epsom salts. Instead of being used for medicinal purposes, as formerly, are now employed, it would appear, for loading flannel. The snowy table linen which used to delight the hearts of Mrs. Tulliver and Aunt Gleig is no linen as of yore, but largely made of cotton filled with china clay, starch and size. So, too, collars are often of cotton faced with linen. In a word, nearly every kind of fabric which is sold is adulterated in some form or other, and the public, in blissful ignor ance of the truth, when it finds out how badly the “things” wear, lays the blame upon the laundryman and the dyer and cleaner instead of upon the real culprits, the manufacturer and the linen draper and hnslpr ORIGINAL VERMONT STATE HOUSE The first state house in Vermont is still standing in Rutland, dilapidated, but an interesting relio of the early days when Ethan Allen and his follow ers were Regarded as the personifica tion of all that embodied strength of manhood and integrity of purpose. This old structure was erected be fore the revolutionary war and stands near Federal square on the east side. Within were held the sessions of Old State House, Rutland, Vt the general assembly, which met al ternately in Rutland and at Windsor, the district court under the federal government, the supreme court of the state, the courts of common pleas and the courts of probate for the district of Rutland. A movement Is under way to pre serve this structure as a museum of natural history and it has been pro posed that the Daughters of the Amer lean Revolution stand sponsor for the plan to raise a sufficient sum of money to purchase the land and building from the citizens who now own it, re pair the interior and start a collection of relics dating back to the time when Rutland was first settled, including minerals of the state, curiosities of ancient origin from the battlefields of the vicinity in which Indians took a prominent part. — - - — ___ _ John Burns’ New Clothes. When speaking in London John Burns once uau on a new suit waicn atti acted the attention of one of tne aumence, / wno sneeringiy remarked that agitation seemed to pay. So Mr. Burns told aim ho*- he came to get the new garments. It appeared tnat a representative of a famous waxworks show waited on him for permission to exhibit him in wax and also for the old suit he was wearing in order to make the presentment more natural. This-the member of the Battersea was willing enough to part with, except for the fact that it was the only suit he possessed. An exchange satisfac tory to both parties was speedily ar ranged and Burns had a new suit. Later an agent of a rival waxworks es tablishment came on a similar errand and another exchange was speedily effected. Who Had Better Right? Coningsby Disraeli, M. P., having, on a New Year’s card to his constltu j ents, used the emblem of a crown, | 1/rd Kpollys wrote that “the king I deprecates the introduction of his name, or of emblems appertaining to him, in political posters or placards.” Instead of kissing the rod, Mr. Dis raeli claims that he has a perfect right to use the emblem. ‘‘I have,” he says, “a perfect right to put that crown on my card, seeing that it was my gTeat ancestor who put an imperial crown cn the throne.” It is possible that the next com munication he receives from the king's private secretary may be less moderate In tone.—London Star. Humor In the Wrong Place. “Everytlme I see this picture of the late Speaker Michael C. Kerr of In diana,” said Congressman Campbell of Ohio, “I am reminded of an old friend of an old friend of mine who work ed on a Boston newspaper. This man was the telegraph editor and was possessed of one of those queer streaks of humor, which he always used at the wrong time. When the story of Speaker Kerr’s c.eath came into the office my friend wipte this headline over th'» storv- •••Trorn gavel to gravel.’ He lost his Job the next morning99 -- ■ m m m m V WWA The “Cld Jay.” Wiry, quick and energetic, envelop ed in an o.d linen duster, a little man, wearing a slouch hat, crowded his way througn the throng in the rotunda of the Tampa Bay hotel when 'the war expedition to Cuba was in prepa ration. Nobody seemed to know this quaint looking little old man, and he was given scant attention. On the sun blistered side of the hotel, where the thermometer stood at 110, he was given a room. When hs entered the dining room the head waiter passed the “old Jay” to the last table, where people of lit tle consequence were assembled But Major General Wheeler, for this Is who the “old jay” was, didn’t mind all this a bit. He smiled at the flower laden tables reserved for stall and fleld oflicers and “shoved” in his sim ple order of dinner with a lusty appe tite. Afterward when the “old Jay” ap peared in a major general’s uniform, he Immensely appreciated the aston ishment depicted on the face of one who had jocosely accosted him as “Rale” on the day before. WHX HE HATy 'REMEMBE'RET) It Is generally the unusual thing which is the easiest to remember— but it seldom happens that exactly the same elements in any situation are most unusual or most striking to any two onlookers. A man who has trav eled many times up and down the Mississippi stood on the levee at Cape Girardeau, Mo., one noontime, wait ing for the arrival of a downbound packet. Another prospective passen ger stepped up and accosted him. "Pardon me, suh,” he said. "You and I have met befo’, but you do not remember me.” "Doubtless if you will recall the circumstances I shall do so,” said the other. "Well, suh, it was at Bahfleld, Ah kansas, one evening five years ago.” “I remember Barfield and the even ing perfectly,” said the man accosted. “It was a frightfully stormy night. The mud at Barfield was deeper than I had ever seen before. I had moored by boat at the bank In front of town, but the bank was so soft I could not climb it. I shinned up a rope to the top, waded over my shoes in mud to a store, bought some groceries and returned to my cabin by sliding down a lumber chute. My wife cooked sup per, and we spent an evening reading aloud from Mark Twain’s ‘Life on the Mississippi.’ A raft of logs broke loose and went down stream, and as I had no skiff to follow them with, I shouted an alarm and others went The.rain turned to snow before morn ing, and the next morning, which was Sunday, the steamer Ferd Herold came in from Memphis at daybreak.” “Yes, suh,” said the man who re membered him. “Yes, suh, I reckon all those things ah so. I do not recall them, howeveh. Bahfield is always muddy when it rains, the Ferd Herold comes in every week, logs often break away, and none of those things is fastened into my memory. “But, suh, I was settin’ in the sto’ that evenin’ when you entered. Wheh you come f’om no one of us knew. You bought, suh, two pounds of rice and a can of tomatoes. Now, suh, I neveh knew a gentleman to buy just that combination of groceries at the same time befo’, and not one of us could Imagine, suh, jes’ what a man who, so fah as we could see, didn’t live theh and didn’t have any home foh usin’ them, was goin’ to do with two pounds of rice and only one can of tomatoes. “I have remembehed you ever since, suh, and have always wondehed what you did with them."—Youth’s Com panion. ITlISHMAfl OF THE PAST At an election before the union, Dick Martin was opposed by Giles Eyre of Eyecourt, a territorial mag nate and thorough sportsman, re nowned alike for his reckless extrav agances and dare-devil bravery, says Blackwood’s Magazine. He was. how ever, totally illiterate, a circumstance less regarded then than at the pres ent time. The hustings in those days used to be erected in Eyre square, in Galway, sufficiently close to each oth er to enable the rival candidates for ropular favor to exchange banter and ether sallies of wit. Advancing to the front of his booth with a folded paper in his hand, Dick Martin exclaimed: ‘‘I declare solemnly, before all here assembled, that I am willing this mo ment to retire from this contest and to allow Col. Eyre to be returned un opposed if he will only sign this dec laration which I hold in my hand.” This, however, it was not possible for Giles Eyre to do—not from any dissent to the views set forth in the document in question, but because, as Dick Martin was well aware, he was totally unable to write his own name. Lord Clanricarde was at that time colonel of the Galway militia, and Giles Eyre filled the post of lieutenant colonel. He had, however, not much more acquaintance with drill than he had with reading and writing. A gen eral officer havibg on one occasion come down from Dublin on a tour of inspection, Giles Eyre had to put the regiment through its facings before him. In five minutes he had reduced the regiment to absolute chaos, no man knowing which was his front nor in which direction he was expected to advance. “Devil take you, sir!” roared the in specting officer, black with fury. “Who made you a lieutenant colonel?” “No one made me a lieutenant colo nel,” Giles Eyre returned, ha^-jhtily. “I should not allow myself to be made a lieutenant colonel by anyone. I was born so.” Nor was this an idle boast, for chil dren were frequently appointed to high military posts while still in their cradles. LyVDy DECIDED TO LIVE A neighbor was fanning Lyddy, who lay very still and apparently breathing her last. Lyddy was a thin, wiry little woman, with a slow-going husband, who had just then tiptoed into the room with his hat on the back of his head. The neighbor shook her head dubiously, and waved Jim back. Then she fanned the sick woman more slowly until the last motion was hardly perceptible, and laid down the fan. Lyddy was breathing, but that seemed all. Stepping into the adjoining kitchen, the neighbor said: "Jim, you might as well go down and order your clothes. You’ve got to show Lyddy proper re spect. Ole Jones is sober this mornin’, and it’s most time for him to have an other toot. If he gits to makin’ ’em he won’t drink till he’s done. But all doomsday can’t stop him when once he gits started.” “Well,: I will," said Jim. ‘‘Lyddy’s got some money laid by from her dressmakin'. She’s mighty thrifty. I’d ’a’ supported Lyddy all right if she'd let me, but seems like she liked to work.” He moved toward the outside door, but a voice made him turn. “Jim Lawson,” said Lyddy, sitting up in bed, “if you think you’re goin’ to git new clothes to wear to my funer il you’re mistaken. I ain’t goin’ to die. You don’t need no new clothes. That money in the blue teacup ain't goin' for no new clothes for you.” “I didn’t mean no harm, Lyddy,” said Jim, lamely. “I won’t trust you, Jim,” Lyddy con tinued. “I’m goin’ to git up. Maria Johnson knows I’ve been .savin’ that money for a new store carpet fur the best room. She’s stuck up her nose at my rag carpet long enough.” The neighbor, perhaps annoyed by this upsetting of her well-meant ar rangements, went out, shutting the door with unnecessary force. Lyddy was getting up.—Chicago News. SA VE 2) sy THE COfiiM TIO JSTS Last summer there was tried at Chi cago a breach of promise suit that awakened much interest in legal cir cles by reason of the ingenious means taken by counsel for the defendant to secure a verdict for his client. Coun sel for the plaintiff had begun to read what was alleged to be the proposal of marriage on the part of the defend ant. This so-called proposal appeared on a telegraph blank. Turning to the jury counsel began with “My darling Marie.” At this juncture counsel for the defendant Interrupted his col league at the bar. “May it please the court, this docu ment, being partly printed and partly written, cannot, by the rules of evi dence, be offered in part by plaintiff. Everything on the blank must be read.” Notwithstanding the protests ofj counsel for the plaintiff that the print ed matter had no relevancy with the case—the fact being that the proposal was written on a telegraph blank by accident—the ruling of the court was that everything on the blank should be read. Accordingly the reluctant counsel for the plaintiff was forced to read the following: "There shall be no liability on ac count of this message unless the same shall b.: repeated, and then only on condition that the claim shall be made within thirty days in w-riting.” Then after th.j signature followed: “Yours devotedly, Harry,” together with this N. B.: "Read carefully the conditions at the top.” To the great delight of counsel for the defendant the jury returned a ver dict in his favor in twenty minutes.— tarper’s Weekly. THE HOLINESS OF TTtVTH • What ia truth that through the ages man should rifle earth and star Seeking ever in the unknown where its mystic fountains ate. For the law of righteous living, for the love that shall not die. While the soul has aspirations to be glorified on high? What is truth that in the distance it should blaze with holy light. Beating back the hosts of darkness in the world's enfolding night. Making man a nobler creature, giving states a wiser aim, Giving virtue, knowledge, valor, each a bright, immortal name? Lo, the world is ever changing, and the new is ever old. And who fights with human progress is a warrior overbold; And the truth Is what we make it by the light of that great love Which forever lifts the planet toward the singing stars above. —Lnai Truth is simple as the sermons nature tells us on our way. Gentle as the thought of brothers who were parted yesterday; It is plain as honest faces that betoken hearts so kind They are hands unto the weary, seeing eyes unto the blind; It Is beautiful as morning when the world awakes to joy And life's golden expectations thrill the eager heart of boy; It is lasting as the cliff rock that forever fronts the sea, Lasting as the ocean waters that shall wash tbe cliff rock free; And although It wrings emotion from the life that suffers long. Though it girds the loins of labor for the battle fierce and stiong; Truth is ever what we make it in the light of love and peace. Help and hope unto the toiling who would give the soul increase! les W. Stevenson, in New York Press. TAIV VEA'RLy FO'R MEAfiffTESS | “It doesn’t pay to incur the enmity of a boy,” said a Kansas City man the other day, relating the misdeeds of his early youth. “I remember how I took revenge on a farmer whom I thought mistreated me. He had a large dog which I greatly admired, but which he sadly mistreated by starving and beat ing it. I used to coax the dog to go hunting with me, and as I had no gun, his aid in running down rabbits was very material. One day the farmer caught me hunting with his dog. He seized me by the neck and shook me roughly, telling me that if he caught me hunting with his dog again he would break every bone in my body and stamp me Into the earth. I felt deeply Indignant I planned to be avenged by some method which would not get me Into more trouble. Within the next two weeks my tormentor lost eighty fine hogs from cholera. I had got satisfaction. From the pen of a neighbor whose pigs had the plague I had picked up two half-eaten ears of corn which I threw into the feed lot of my enemy and infected his whole herd. It was a devilish deed, and even be fore the pigs began to die I had re pented. A boy’s wrath is as terrible as a man’s, and he has not the wis dom of his years to help him control it. Eighty fine hogs was the price that farmer paid for promising to mas sacre a boy for making friends with his mistreated dog. And the farmer never knew. Even a boy and a dog are better to have as friends than enemies.”—Kansas City Times. PORTING r 'Stftwu* o»js>tiu3 lysafc—'N The date of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race has been fixed for April 1. In the International Hockey league the Michigan Soo won from Canadian Soo, 15 to 4. Chicago’s freshman track team de feated Wendell Phillips High School in a dual track meet by a score of 60 to 17. Walter Steffens broke his own world’s record of 0:06 2-5 for the fif ty yards low hurdles by going the dis tance in 0:06 1-5. J. Pierpont Morgan forwarded a check for $500 toward the fund started to send the American athletes to the Olympic games at Athens next April. Among other prominent subscribers recently were: S. R. Guggenheim, $500; August Belmont, $100; Morti mer L. Schiff, $50. Although the plans for the tennis invasion of England next summer still are in an unsettled state, it is possible that the American team will consist of but two men. The men most likely to represent this country are Ward and Wright, who would prove a for midable combination. By a magnificent finish and after apparently being badly beaten, Thom as Hueston of Scranton, Pa., over came a lead of 107 balls in the final block of his match with Charles WTes ton of Chicago, challenger for the world’s championship pool emblem, and retained the trophy. The final score was 600 to 589. The rules for the James Gordon Ben nett aeronautic cup fix the last day for the reception of entries as March 1. Trial races will be held April 2. The first entry, which was received to-day, was from the Italian Aeronau tic society, which has chosen Alfred von Wilier a well-known aeronaut, as the pilot of its airship. Another large contribution was made Feb. 9 to the fun being raised in order that a team of American athletes may be sent to Athens to compete in the Olympic games there this spring. This contribution, amount ing to $500, was made by George J. Gould. Mr. Gould is the first honor ary vice president of the American committee of the Olympic games. j Boxing. The proposed match between Jack Dougherty and Jimmy Gardner has fallen through, as they failed to agree on the weight stipulation. Jack Curley, who is traveling with Marvin Hart, has written a friend in Louisville that if the Kentucky boxer defeats Burns, Jeffries has promised Marvin a match. Jack Havlin, the old-time prize fighter, died in Boston city hospital of Bright’s disease, aged 48. He was a contemporary of Ike Weir, and in his day was well known as a lightweight. At Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 9, “Kid” Herman of Chicago and Aurelio Her rera fought twenty rounds to a draw. The battle was the fiercest ever seen in Los Angeles, and each man varied in point of advantage throughout the contest Joe Gans makes the most unique offer ever made by a pugilist. The Baltimore scrapper declares his wil lingness to meet both Britt and Nel son on the same night and in the same ring. Not only that, but he will weigh 133 pounds at 6 o’clock. Joe says that he will fight each of them twenty rounds, and all he asks is one hour’s rest between fights. He also asks per mission to name the man who will have to meet him first. Before he left Chicago to continue his theatrical tour. Jack O'Brien an I TOPS A VAULTING RECORD. jjozorjw&r At the games of the Cincinnati Y. M. C. A. this University of Indiana athlete created a new record for pole vaulting indoors at 11 feet 5V6 inches, raising the best previous mark by one inch, a record* that also was held by Samse. The young athlete was a member of the Chicago Athletic asso ciation’s team last summer. nounced that he and Tommy Ryan were matched, the battle to take place on May 8. The club before which the men will meet has not been selected, but the bout will be given to the one making the best offer. A California promoter probably will stage the af fair, although Tom O’Rourke’s Tuxedo club is an active bidder and stands a good chance of getting it if long bat tles can be held in Pennsylvania with out interference. Catcher Tom Needham of Eoston denies that he intends to quit the big league. He may buy stock in the pro posed Steubenville club, but will continue to work for the Beaneaters. More runs were score-t off M<’In tyre of Brooklyn than oft my other National league pitcher iasi. season. One hundred and eighty-eight runners made the circuit while Mac was in the box. President Pulliam has promulgated the contracts of Huggins, Dorner Schlei, Livingstone, Hafford and Sey mour with Cincinnati. Third base man Lobert has also signed with the Reds. George Yeager, the former New York catcher, expects to graduate at a veterinary surgeon before the blue birds chirp loudly. He has been study ing horse doctoring for the past 18 months at Cincinnati. Conflicts in the playing schedules of the National and American leagues have been reduced to the same num ber as last year, twenty-four, despite the fact the two seasons will open on different dates this spring. Frank Huelsman, outfielder of the Washington American league team, has been sold to Montreal of the j Eastern league. The terms of the sale give Washington the right to recall GREAT BILLIARD EXPERT. ,<223<R2r<sz?ssor George Slosson has Been matched to play Willie Hoppe, the youthful cue expert, for the billiard champion ship of the world. According to the conditions of the match the youth and the veteran are to meet in a 500 point encounter, at 18-inch balk line, one shot in balk, on March 27. The stakes will be $500 a side and the winner is to take the net receipts. Hoppe recently defeated Vignaux, the Frenchman. the player at any time upon repay ment of the purchase price. Outfielder Jimmy Barrett of the De troits has his injured joint in a plaster cast at his home, and writes that he will keep it on a few weeks more. He is suffering no inconvenience therefrom and thinks his knee will be strong as ever when the time comes to go South. Ralph Cadwallader, a pitcher in last year's Sioux City (Iowa) baseball team, signed as a pitcher with the Cleveland American league team. Howard Wakefield, a catcher in the Des Moines (Iowa) club last season, also signed with Cleveland to play the same position. The club has seven teen men already signed. President Holland announced that the Three Eye league magnates had voted in favor of readopting the origi nal schedule approved at the meeting in Chicago on Jan. 11. It contains 126 games, with ten Sundays at home for each team. The mileage is 19,000, the smallest in the history of the league, due to placing Rock Island in tne western circuit. Trotting. John E. Madden, one of America’s most famous turfmen, paid $47,000 for Prince Wllbourne at the Splan sale. The price is among the highest ever paid for a horse in the West. The Montpelier (Ind.) Fair and Driving Park association has named dates for its fair and race meeting. Sept. 24-29. The association pays good purses and has a splendid track. The 5-year-old matinee trotter, Har ry McKerron, by John A. McKerron. was sold by Charles A. Otis Jr., of Cleveland to other Cleveland owners for $7,000. The horse is to be trained for the intercity $5,000 cup race. Racing men are astonished at the serious accusation made against E. E. Smathers, the millionaire turfman, in connection with the trotting race be tween Lou Dillon and Major Delmar in October, 1904. at the Memphis track. Mr. Smathers is charged with guilty knowledge that drugs were ad ministered to Lou Dillon on the occa sion when he drove his own horse to victory over C. K. G. Billing’s mare, which was also driven by her owner. As a result of these charges, which were sworn to by George Spear, train er of Major Delmar, and Edward Saunders, a brother of Lou Dillon’s trainer, the $5,000 gold cup, which Mr. Smathers won in that race, has been seized by the Memphis Racing association. Football. "~j After a stormy session of four hour? the University of Wisconsin faculty decided to remain firmly in opposition to football. Yale, Princeton and Harvard have agreed to limit membership on ath letic teams to three years. This sweeps away members of professional schools and athletes imported from ather colleges and makes it impossi hie for any student to get upon a team till after he has been a year in the university. The University of Iowa faculty sen ate voted to abolish football for the period of two years unless certair drastic reforms are inaugurated hv the “big nine” conference. These re toms chiefly are those recommended m LT1 conference at Chicago but the Iowa professors voted fot