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take effect in the prosont case, under whicli and in the full
rl?$r acknowledge of which these debates took place? Is it just to
say to the successful sixteen: "Since some one else did not
win your place, wo will force you to allow these 'some-ono-6180,'
although we admit there has boon no fraud, and that
the same system was employed which we determined should
bo employed, to try again and compete again with you for the
fr
Exchange.
In Germany, one man in 223 goes to college; in Scotland,
one in 520; in United States, one in 2009; and in England,
one in 5000. Ext
Harvard has the largest faculty in the country, with a total
of 337, a body nearly as large as the lower branch of Con
gress. Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania follow
nine highest places. Wo are sorry it will lessen your chances with 265 and 240 respectively. Brown has a faculty of 91.
of winning after you have won your chances honestly, but Exchange.
there are some who really ought to have won places, and now
since they have failed themselves, we must see that they se
cure places even though you may lose." The Hesperian
believes that, when a man is whipped, it is far more graceful
and becoming to admit than to deny it.
A College Not A Home For Incurables.
A college is not a home for incurables or a limbo for the
dull and inefficient, says Lo Baron R. Brlggs, dean of Harvard
college, in The January Atlantic. Moreover, as a Western
father observed to President Eliot, "It does not pay to spend
two thousand dollars on a two dollar boy." Though a firm
believer in college training as the supreme intellectual privi
lege of youth, I am convinced the salvation of some young
men (for the practical purpose of this present world) is in tak
ing them out of college and giving them long and inevitable
hours in some office or factory. I do not mean that all suc
cess in college belongs to the good scholars; for many a youth
who stands low in his clasBesgets incalculable benefit from his
college course.
It is the week-kneed dawdler who ought to go, the youth
whose body and mind are waiting away in bad hours and bad
company, and whoso sense of truth grows dimmer and dimmer
in the smoke of Iub cigarettes; yet it is precisely this youth fernaiiv
"wno, mrougn mere inertia, is nuraest io move, wno seems
glued to the university, whose father is helpless before his fu
ture, and whose relatives contend that, since he is no man's
enemy but his own, ho should be Jillovred to stay in college so
long as his father will pay his tuition fee as if a college were
a public conveyance wherein anybody that pays his fare may
abide "unless personally obnoxious," or a hotel where any-
The teacher asked, "And what is space?"
The trembling student said,
"I can not think at present,
But I havo it in my head." Ex.
During the foot-ball season last year there were five deaths
and thirty-three serious injuries, while the minor accidents ran
up into the hundreds. A peculiar incident is noticeable in the
list of serious injuries, the number comprising many different
kinds of mishaps. The list is as follows: Collar bones broken,
5; legs broken, 4; ribs broken, 4; skulls fnictured, 4; torn lig
aments of legs, 3; shoulder bones broken, 2; nose broken,
concussion of the brain, ruptured kidney, wrist broken, collar
bone dislocated, ankle sprained, leg dislocated, elbow socket
broken, dislocated knee, cartilsigo of ribs torn, ankle broken,
thumb broken and dislocated knee made up the other acci
dents. The following is a complete list of deaths:
October 1. Boston College game, R. Coveney, paralysis
of the spine.
October 2. Practice game at Omaha, Neb., W. Howell,
injured spine.
October 11. Game at Camden, N. J., E. Shoemaker,
crushed fingers, from which lockjaw resulted.
October 22. Wyoming vs. Dickinson, M. P. Anderson,
injured internally.
November 5. Game at Chicago, J. Morrison, injured in-
Exouange.
A shrewd little fellow who had just begun to learn Latin as
tonished his teacher by saying, "Vir, a man; gin, a trap;
virgin, aman-tran." Exchange.
Obituary.
W, L. Williams died in Pittsburg, Pa., a few weeks ago as
the result of a surgical operation ho underwent for appendicitis.
body that pays enough may lie in bed and have all the good The deceased waB a graduate-of the law college ia 1890, and a
things sent np to him. No college . certainly no college raomber of Palladian literary society. He practiced law in
with an elective system, which presupposes a youth's interest Beatrice for a time and made a host of friends there in social
in his own intellectual welfare can afford to keep such as he. and educational circles. Ho later became connected with a
Nor can he afford to be kept. One of the first aims of college polishing house of Chicago, and was holding a lucrative po-
life is increase of power: be he scholar or at ,lete, the sound sitlon with this house at the time of his death.
His parents have the heartfelt sympathy of his many college
friends in the loss of their son.
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undergraduate learns to meet difficulties; "stumbling blocks,"
in the words of an admirable preacher, become 'stopping-
stones." It is a short-Blghted kindness that keeps in college
-3t'(with its priceless opportumtiep for growth and its correspond- ,, T T3.., T , . . ,, ,. ,
o 1 . i .. , ,. , .. Miss L. Idilla Jeffery, former Palladian, at present a teach
ing opportunites for degeneration) a youth who hes down m er in tlie Lexlnf,ton Bhoo,Bi entertained her friends at her
front of his stumbling-blocks in the vague hope that by and by Lome at 226 south Twenty-seventh street last Monday evening.
the authorities will have them carted away. ,The rime passed very pluasantly.
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