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n 1208 EDITOR'S notes. VOL. VIII, more creditable in all its departments to :( high institution of learning. Wo con. dcinn tliuir custom of reprinting articles from other magazines. Tliuir literary nititlur should lio purely 01 iginul. Tlio JNVim Letter Irom Grin-null, I own, is a new comer to our tabic. "What tlio Kn glish say of ns" was a very rendiblo essay and we were much interested in the com ments made upon the decision of the Su preme Court in regard to the right of stu dents to vote. The question was consid ered in all its hearings, and will prol). ably be regarded as settling the question and thus secure to the students the free exercise of that right dearest to all Amor ican youths. The locals of the Centre Qollvje Oour ant are simply execrable, but thuy wore somewhat counter balanced by tlio editor ials which were quite good and an im provement upon those usually found in the Ooiiront. Editor's Jotcs. Two Indians have entered at Union. Princeton College is at last out of debt. Nearly .$1,000,000 is given out annually in our colleges n prizes. One hundred and thirty four ladies are registered this fall at Ann Arbor. Three thousand seven hundred profes sors arc employed in the colleges through out the United States. The University of Colorado opened with one hundred studonts; ten of these being Freshman. Prof. Von Hoist, of Freiburg, Germany, the author of the history of the Uuilud States, has been elected to the chair of history at John Hopkins. Three Harvard students who made a tour of Great Britain and the continent last summer, chieily in a birch bark ca. noe, through regions w'atoicd by naviga ble rivers, intend to publish a book of their adventures. Gin Sling is thu ouphonius name of a Chinese Freshman at Yale. Who knows but sometime in the dim future Gin Sling may become one of the ornaments of the American liar. Ivo Kum Alio is to teach the Chinese anguagc at Harvard. Ho has been on gaged at a salary of $200 per month. The new professor is described by the press as a slender, richly dressed man of forty. Ho lias a wife and six children who are with him now at Cambridge. 0O.MMKNOKMKNT. The Srnilor black hi ootb Ami e)lio u IiIh wny, Mukos hi llttlu bow Anil iniys lilt llttlu fay. Then hu innkos another Ami wait." fur Ins bouquut, Whlluall thu pooplu clap their liamN Ami thu h.-imlbuKliib to play. It is understood that gongs, sounded si multaueously by electricity at the expira lion of each lecture hour, are to be placed in every lecture and recitation room in the school of Mines and the new college building, for the purpose of securing uni fortuity in the commencement and con- elusion of lectures. TiiHcitAiuin cu-Tin: "moiit" iiiuiiaiib. Slxij ami four, sixty ami four, sixty lonr dollar I he) paid, I'nlil for a night or sport, paid thu ray '7iy" brigade; "Fay !' was the Marshall' urv, Ttivlr' not to ronton why, Thi'lr's not to make roply, Their' hnt to par ami iljjh. Noble Fifteen. They kiicw that thuy had blundered, When Ixty four" he Uitimlured, "Kour'n u quarter a pluce" ho thuuduml. While all the town womlurwl. Unips to thu right of Ilium, lamps to thu U-tl of thuin. lamps all behind them, llrokfiiaml cliiUtcrud: Llttlu they thought It mattered At through thu streuts thuy chattered, Festive Fifteen. When can their mumory fado? O the w lid break they made! Honor the rhargo they paid. Honor the Hijhi" brigade, Hoyal Fifteen,