In answer to President Faunce's appeal for the suitable marking of rooms in the Brown University dormitories occupied by famous graduates, H. P. Dormon of the class of '96 has offered a por. trait of John Hay, '58, to be hung in 44 Hope. Under the portrait is to be placed a metal plate with an inscription indicating the dates at which Mr. Hay occupied that room, from the fall of 1856 to the spring of 1858.

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The executive committee of the board

of curators of the Missouri State University, decided to change the schedule of the University to five school days in the week, instead of six, as at present. The sixth day, although there will be no classes nor lectures, will not be a holiday. It will be a day devoted to study, and students will be under restrictions.

Tufts College is to become a station in the Boston postoffice district, which assures increased accomodations with a carrier service.

Graduates of Johns Hopkins University are protesting against the recent action of the trustees in admitting women to the graduate courses of study. Arthur W. Machen, a graduate and an honor man, and now a lawyer, resigned fron the Johns Hopkins Club for this reason.. Others are reported to be following his example. In a published statement M.. Machen says:

"Any woman who forces herself in an institution where she is not wanted by the students or alumni is unworthy of her sex, and the influx of this class will drive away the very class of men we want at the university. I am disgusted with the whole affair, and I voice the opinion of the students and the alumni."

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Some two years ago there was organized at Yale a tutorial board, consisting of seventeen of the academic de

partment faculty. It was to have a kind of advisory and social relation with the sophomore class, each member of which was assigned to various members of the board for advice and influence, particularly in the matter of studies. The board now includes ten professors and six other instructors. It was intended to a certain extent, to take the place of the old division offices under the "required" system of study which preceded the elective plan. Inquiry now goes to show that the scheme has not been very successful, and there is talk of giving it up, the sophomore class not having proved responsive in the matter of voluntarily seeking advice, particularly in matters of scholarship.

The statistics of the life-work of the graduating classes at Williams College have just been given out, and reveal an astonishingly large number of students going into business and a peculiarly small number who will take up teaching. Of the 99 in the class, 33 men will go into various lines of business and 4 will take up banking, making nearly two-fifths of the class in non-professional work. Of the remainder 19 are still undecided, 13 will study law, only 8 will teach, 7 will take up graduate work in a technical school, 5 will study medicine, 3 the ministry, 2 will go to forestry schools, I will enter newspaper work and I each will study in graduate schools of architecture, classics, philosophy and English.

Chicago is to have a college woman's club, with parlors, reading and diningrooms. At a meeting of about five hundred college women lately held in Handel Hall, Mrs. Thomas Balmer, a Vassar graduate, was made chairman of the executive committee. The other members of the committee are: Miss Grace Jackson of Wellesley, Mrs. Barrett Poucher of Rockford, Miss Isabelle Lynde of Bryn Mawr, Miss Gertrude Gane of Smith, Miss Esther Witkowski of Vassar, and Mrs. P. S. Peterson. Miss Witkowski asserts that there are 2000 women in the city eligible for membership, and that though most women's colleges have alumni associations none have clubhouses, which she thinks very desirable.

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Tulane University, New Orleans, is trying to raise funds to provide for an architectural course in the University. No Southern college offers such a course, and the young men of the South are compelled to go as far North as Philadelphia and New York to receive instruction in that subject and in addition to this the architecture taught in the North is not in every respect suited to the sunny Southland. It is hoped that this course may begin next session. It is also probable that a library course will be offered for the coming year. In the North and West regularly trained librarians are employed in all city schools. Since the great Carnegie library is to be located in New Orleans, and the superb Howard Library, the libraries of Tulane and Newcomb and others are being developed, it will require but little money to establish a training school for librarians. It is thought that such a course will be offered next year.

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All high schools of the State, including those that give no work in foreign language, will be accredited by the university hereafter as a result of the action just taken by the faculty of the University of Wisconsin. The only requirement is that the course of study of the high school be equal to that recommended for a four years' high school curriculum by the State superintendent of public instruction, and that this course of

study be given in a satisfactory manner. The graduates of such an approved school will be received by the university without examination on the presentation of a certificate showing the satisfactory completion of fourteen required unit courses and containing the recommendation of the principal. Manual training will hereafter be accredited as one unit toward entrance, and the students will be permitted to present one unit of optional study. Commercial subjects to the extent of one unit will also be permitted as a part of the required work for entrance History and science have been removed from the list of subjects required of all, and henceforth will be optional. Spanish will be credited for entrance and two years of Latin will likewise be accepted. These changes meet with the approval of the committee of the Wisconsin Principals' and Superintendents' Association, appointed at the last meeting of that body to confer with the university authorities in regard to the entrance requirements.

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A slight coldness is reported to exist between the Amherst students and the sweet girl undergraduates at Smith College, across the river. The girls say it is not their fault, but the boys vow that it is. Amherst, or its student body, announces that even a worm will turn at last, and that this particular worm is going to turn by having recourse to that modern weapon, the boycott.

The complaint of the Amherst men is that they have been second fiddles in the Smith social orchestra altogether too long. Perhaps it is true that "familiarity breeds contempt," anyhow, the Smith girls, having always had their Amherst neighbors at their beck and call for house dances, tennis tournaments, teas and the like, have got into the way of loftily overlooking them when any really important function is on the carpet.

The annual glee club concert is one of the Smith College events that really count, invitations to which are greatly desired. But some five or six years ago Amherst began to be obscured on the Smith horizon as the glee club concert drew near by Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Princeton. The girls sent their invitations to their

man friends in these colleges, and only when it was imperatively neessary to have somebody to "fill in" did an Amherst representative get one. The Amherst men have borne it, hoping the tide would turn, but it has not. Therefore the boycott. If Amherst students may not attend Smith's glee club concert they will not grace its pink teas. They will turn down all invitations till they get the ones they want.

The girls do not appear worried by the boycott. For the most part they have done nothing but giggle about it. Some of them say haughtily: "We girls simply have to make those Amherst men keep their places. If we'd let them, they'd act as if Smith were an Amherst annex, and try to run our college. Besides," they add, "just wait till we get our new summer clothes, and that boycott will dissolve into thin air."

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Eleven fellowships will be granted by the University of Kansas next year in the following departments: German, romance languages, English, education, mathematics, chemistry, American history, European history, sociology and economics, philosophy and zoology. Fellows are not allowed to devote more than seven hours per week to the department, and are paid $215. Graduates of any college of accredited standing are allowed to apply for the position of fellow.

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A scholarship at the University of Chicago will be established by the Chicago chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy for sons and daughters of confederate veterans residing in the south. A school tuition amounting to $120 each year for three years will be provided by the university, the local chapter of its friends to raise $150 each year for student's expenses.

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Two Yale students were arrested charged with firing a rifle from the windows of their room and endangering the lives of the neighbors. In court they testified that the cats had so multiplied in the neighborhood that their nightly concerts were a nuisance and made study impossible. The students were fined $1

each, and costs. They at once asked the Chief of Police for permission to use a rifle on the cats, but were refused on the ground that he had no power to abrogate the city ordinance. The students next applied to the Mayor for a permit and were refused on the same ground. A citizen protested to the mayor against granting their request, adding that should it be granted he himself would ask for a permit to use a rifle on Yale students of the neighborhood, who made much more noise than the cats.

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Theodore H. Shonts has presented Drake University, Des Drake University, Des Moines, with fifty service scholarships of $50 each, to become effective at the beginning of the 1907 school year. These scholarships will be named the Theodore Harry Shonts service scholarships, and will pay the tuition of laboratory assistants and a large number of student workers.

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V. K. Wellington Koo, a Chinese student, won the first prize in the annual debating competition of the Philolesian Literary society at Columbia university. This society is the oldest of its kind at the institution, and its annual competition attracts much attention. Koo has made a remarkable record at the university, for, unlike the rest of his countrymen there, he takes part in every form of student activity. He has made himself so popular that his victory was applauded by all undergraduates. Koo is identified in more literary activities at Columbia than most of the white students. He is managing editor, too, of the literary monthly, editor of the Spectator, a daily paper; the Columbian, an annual record of the university, and the Dorms, the dormitory organ. He also has engaged in track athletics.

lowing for difference in the number of classes, at the present rate of gain the number of students in the scientific school will in five years equal those in the academic department.

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Two of the Amherst Alumni associations now have publications. The Amherst Club of Chicago has recently published the Western Alumnus and the St. Louis Association publish the Growler.

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Corduroy trousers are now becoming the distinctive form of costume worn by upper classmen at Northwestern. Aside from the natty, well dressed appearance so peculiarly characteristic of corduroy, which in this case was a minor consideration, the chief factor in determining the choice of the students was the extreme durability which the material always shows. Some of the juniors have declared that they intend to wear them during the remainder of their college course, and not only that, but that they purpose to keep them as mementoes during the rest of their natural lives, to be worn only on gala days, and to be handed down as priceless heirlooms to succeeding generations.

ties are taking advantage of the educational facilities granted by our great American universities. At the University of Illinois there are this year, as students, representatives from Japan, India, China, the Phillippines, Mexico, Argentine, Greece, Spain and Bulgaria. They are entered in all the different courses offered, and are proving among the best students at the State University.

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Efforts are being made to greatly increase the funds available for the reduction of term bills at Oberlin College, and the success which has already attended these efforts gives ground for the hope that such an amount may be secured that no worthy student need be prevented from enjoying the privileges of the college because of his inability to pay term bills. Any student who receives beneficiary aid from the college may be called upon to render services to the college as an equivalent for any part, or all, of the money so received.

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"The opening of the doors of Johns Hopkins University to women was simply a matter of justice and common sense,' said President Remsen, in commenting upon the change when the trustees decided to admit women students to the graduate courses. "Hopkins is practically the last of the universities to take this step," continued Mr. Ramsen. "Women students who wished to take advance study should have the opportunity to work side by side with men and receive the same advantages. We have not had many applications from women. and do not expect many.

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During the last year, the employment agency of Chicago University secured positions for 480 students. These men reported having earned $50.000, while it is estimated that at least $20,000 more was earned but not reported. The president of a motor car company in that city made the statement that he intended. to recruit all his forces with university men. Such men, he thinks, are able to grasp new contingencies, constantly arising in business, quicker than employes without the higher education. This opin

ion voices the feeling of many business. men who have had experience with college students in this way.

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Chicago University men have earned as much as $80 a month by half days, and women often reach as high as $13 a week. Young students without any experience have secured positions from $1.50 to $3.00 for Saturday work as salesmen in the large department stores.

Owing to the necessity of cutting down the football schedule, Princeton has dropped Dartmouth, and there will be no football game played between the two institutions next year. The score of last year's game between the two teams stand 12 to o in favor of Princeton.

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Conditions at the University of Illnois are decidedly favorable for the selfsupporting student, as shown by an investigation recently made by an officia! connected with the Employment Bureau of the local Young Men's Christian Association. According to this investigation over one-fifth of the students are engaged in various kinds of work in order to pay in part or wholly for their college education. Positions connected with the boarding clubs, such as commissary, waiter, or dishwasher, offer the best opportunities and it is estimated that over three hundred students pay at least for their board by such work. One hundred and fifty students pay a large part of their expenses by taking care of furnaces during the winter months. Many others utilize Saturdays and occasional afternoons in working by the hour on the Uni. versity farm, in offices, or about the gym. nasium. Twenty-five students are engaged in the profitable work of running laundry agencies or collecting laundry bills. One student engaged as a laundry agent has paid all his college expenses thus far and has a surplus of two hundre. dollars. A number of students possess typewriters and realize a good profit by transcribing these. Many engineering and chemistry students secure daily work in the laboratories.

In unison with the men of Ohio State, Delaware and Western Reserve universities, the men of Oberlin College have formed a Civic Association with the object of getting college men, both students and faculty, awake to the practical problems and affairs of modern politics and business. It is the intention of the Ohio League to invite many public men such as President Roosevelt, Secretary Taft and Mayor Tom L. Johnson to make the circuit of the four schools, speaking upon some practical problems. A chance will be given also for every member of the several clubs to meet the speaker personally and talk with him, thus getting college men into direct touch with the men who are getting results in practica! affairs. It provides for monthly meetings to be held on the second Saturday night in every month. A programme is to be given at each meeting, in which political

affairs are to be discussed. As often as possible there will be substituted for this regular meeting an address by some notable man.

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In the new annual catalogue of the Louisiana State University, which has just been issued, it is announced that the subfreshmen or preparatory department which has been maintained heretofore will be omitted, beginning with the session of 1907-08. The management of the institution believe that, while the abolition of this department may have its effect upon attendance for a short time it will eventually prove a benefit in the matter of increasing the standard of the curriculum. Several other changes are announced in the law and agricultural departments, the latter to be modeled some.what after the University of Minnesota.