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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,
