Hughes, Jr., son of the governor of the State of New York. The debate was on the question: "Resolved, That the recent actions of the authorities of the United States in regard to the Dominican Republic constitute a desirable departure in American diplomacy.

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The Harvard Bulletin has passed into the management of the Alumni Association, with E. H. Wells and John D. Merrill as joint editors. Mr. Wells is the general secretary of the Alumni Association and with the reorganization of that body was made an editor of the Bulletin, which becomes the official organ of the graduates. The Bulletin, which has heretofore been published by the Athletic Association of Harvard graduates, will now be published by the Harvard Alumni Association, and the editorial and business offices of the paper will be at the headquarters of the Alumni Association, 50 State street, Boston. For a long time the Athletic Association of Harvard graduates has existed in name only. It was first formed to maintain the interest of the graduates in the sports of the undergraduates, and in a general way to foster and promote the athletics of the university. As these are now carried on there is little or nothing for a graduate organization to do, and for several years past the only function of the Athletic Association of Harvard Graduates has been the publication of the weekly Bulletin. The reorganization of the Alumni Association by the establishment of headquarters in Boston, the appointment of a permanent secretary, and the determination of the officers to make the association of real value to the university, afforded an opportunity for greatly increasing the usefulness of the Bulletin if it could be acquired and published by the Alumni Association. The transfer was quickly arranged and has been carried out with the cordial approval of everybody concerned. The general character of the paper will not be changed. It is hoped that by its new affiliations its circulation will grow and that its opportunity for keep ing in touch with the graduates and thus helping the university will increase. In past years the Bulletin has been self

supporting. Under the new auspices it is expected that increased subscription lists will make something better possible, and that means will be provided not only for improving the paper, but also for maintaining and broadening the work of the Alumni Association. The future of the paper will be determined wholly by the degree in which the graduates of the university cooperate for its success.

The sixth annual exhibition between the camera clubs of Harvard, Pennsylvania and Michigan was held at Harvard last month. Each club entered fifty pictures, and of the three prizes and seven honorable mentions which were awarded, a Harvard student won the prize for the best individual photograph with his print called "Evening on the Charles." Students of the University of Pennsylvania won second and third prizes respectively. The University of Pennsylvania was awarded first prize for the best collection, Harvard was second and the University of Michigan third.

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The faculty of arts and sciences of Harvard has issued a pamphlet containing the list of courses to be given during the next college year. The list includes a total of 570 courses, as against 533 courses this year. The principal changes have been made in the English literature courses, most of which have been rearranged in accordance with the plan to have them deal with certain periods of time rather than with specific works. The faculty has announced that hereafter no extra admission subject will be counted as a course or half-course towards a degree unless offered in advance as the equivalent of college work and unless the examination book has been read with that end in view.

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The class day or ivy day exercises at Smith College will be entirely composed and executed by members of the senior class this year. For the last three years this has been the custom and has been so great a success, particularly in the musical line, that it will probably become a permanent tra

dition. The ivy day exercises, which occur June 17, have two parts, the outdoor and the indoor. The former consists of the beautiful ivy procession, which is perhaps the prettiest event of the college year. The seniors wearing white and each carrying an American Beauty rose, march two by two between the junior ushers, who are dressed in colors and who carry on their shoulders the ropes of ivy which give the day its name.

Gathering on the steps of College Hall, the seniors sing the ivy song, while the senior president plants the ivy. This cludes the outdoor program. Immediately following, the seniors march into Assembly Hall, while their friends and relatives hasten to get the best seats possible to see and hear the indoor exercises. These consist principally of a musical program and exercises.

There is considerable change to go into effect next year in the mechanical engineering course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The languages in the first two years have been decreased to a considerable extent and the professional work in the third and fourth years moved back to make room for more fourth-year work. German, which formerly was given in.the second year, will be put back into the first year and is made optional with French. With this relief in the second year the hours in mechanism, mechanical engineering, drawing, English and European history have been lengthened. Fifteen more hours will be given in the outside study for mechanism, thirty hours will be added to the school work in drawing, thirty hours in and forty hours out of school added in English, and twenty hours added for European history. This will greatly increase the importance of the

general studies. Applied mechanics will be given in the second term of second year, it now being given in third year. The hours in mechanism have been decreased, while physics laboratory and precision of measurements will be given in this term, taking these subjects from third year. The hours in English will be decreased while German is taken out.

This pushing back of subjects greatly opens up the last two years, affording a chance to give longer courses in important subjects. The first term of third year will be similar to its present schedule, except that the second part of applied mechanics and physics laboratory will be given. In the second term what is now first term fourth year applied mechanics will be given and the laboratory work in this subject is added. The hours in the most important course of steam engineering have been greatly lengthened, and metallurgy of iron and heating and ventilating, now fourth year subjects, will be added. These changes give a greater opportunity in the fourth year for laboratory work and in the new course in power plant design added. With the new schedule the course will be splendidly strong throughout, without the jam

of work that now comes in the third year. There will also be a better opportunity for the student to be grounded in the fundamental subjects of applied mechanics and physics.

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The Harvard faculty of arts and sciences, at a recent meeting, made an important change in the rules regarding entrance conditions. Hereafter a student entering with conditions will be required to make up the deficiencies in his studies before he can be promoted to the sophomore class. Heretofore two years have been allowed for the passing off of entrance conditions. The class entering next year will be the first to feel the effect of the new regulations. Another change was made by which students who enter college with conditions in elective work will be permitted to remove those conditions by taking by taking courses in subjects other than those in which the condition was imposed. This rule goes into effect at once.

The fund for a memorial to the late Robert Henry Thurston, director of Sibley College, Cornell, is now complete. This fund, started by the four classes in college at the time of Dr. Thurston's death, but since added to by other Sibley students, and, therefore, representing a tribute from Sibley men in general, amounts to about $1,600. The memorial will be a bronze bust of Dr. Thurston by Herman Atkins MacNeil of New York. Mr. MacNeil was formerly instructor in Sibley, and was well acquainted with the the late director.

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Twelve Indian girls of the Chickasaw Nation, in Indian Territory, have written to President Winstone, of the State Agricultural College, Charlotte, N. C., requesting his aid in getting white husbands. The girls state that they have entered into a pact to marry none but white men. They have much land, and they think students at the Agricultural College will make the right sort of husbands. President Winstone read the let ter to the students and it created enthusiasm. Fifty students have written replies to the girls.

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Clarence F. Birdseye, Amherst '74, in his recent book on "Individual Training in Our Colleges," has this to say: "The general college atmosphere is not a culture atmosphere. Besides their real vices, many of our undergraduates run in debt needlessly, are extravagant, dilatory, unpunctual, neglectful of details, inaccurate in mental grasp, never finishing and mastering a thing thoroughly at the time, not keeping accounts, nor knowing the value of money or personal creditbecoming less and less fitted for the professional and business life they are to live for the next forty years."

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The Julia Amory Appleton fellowship in architecture, at Harvard, is one of the best given in the university. This fellowship, which has an income of $1,000 a year, is awarded to graduates in the architecture department who have taken the degree with distinction, or who have completed with distinction a year in the graduate school. The holder of the fel

lowship is required to spend a year in travel and study in Europe, under the general direction of the professor of architecture. He is required to submit. monthly reports of his progress, and to send at the end of each half-year a measured drawing of some great European monument of architecture. He is also required to make during his stay in Europe a detailed study of a building or group of buildings, and to publish the results of his study in permanent form when he relinquishes the fellowship. The award was made on the nomination of the department of architecture, and with the co-operation of a committee of practicing architects.

There is a movement under way among Yale undergraduates to consolidate The Banner and Pot-Pourri into a single university annual. At present The Banner is published by a board of editors who buy the concession from The Lit. The publication of The Pot-Pourri is controlled by the senior society of Scroll and Key. The books, though published at different times in the year, cover practically the same ground and have been maintained, to a certain extent, as rival and competitive year books. There is at present no university annual published.

The returns from 283 members of the Yale academic class of 1906 show that 120, or about 42 per cent, are in some form of business, as distinguished from professional work or studies preliminary to it. Corresponding figures for the classes of 1897-1902 compiled by Professor Bailey, are about 27 per cent, the change showing the rapidly increasing "pull" of business on the new graduates of Yale's "culture" department, corre

sponding with returns from other colleges.

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The attempt to disfranchise the Cornell coeds and to deprive them of the right to vote for all of the important officers in the junior class was soundly beaten in a class meeting, and the coeds won a big victory. The question arose over an attempt on the part of certain advocates of segregation to incorporate into the constitution of the class of 1908 a provision which would have allowed the

girls to vote for three minor offices, but would have made the class president and other important class officers open only to a vote by the men. The Amendment was introduced by the editor in chief of the Cornell Sun, and had the backing of that paper in its editorial columns. was supported by the so-called woman haters not only in the junior class but also in other classes, and it is understood had the moral support of most of the 1906 men now in the university.

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Three high-class Chinese women are numbered among the pupils of Wells College, Aurora, N. Y.-Mrs. Bien, who before her marriage was Miss Li, the granddaughter of Earl Li Hung Chang, Miss Chang, the daughter of the governor of the province of An Lim, and Mrs. Aze, whose grandfather is now one of the ministers of the celestial empire and is connected with all important movements in Pekin. The coming of these young women is one of the direct results of the visit of the Chinese im

perial commission to this country last spring, when they made a special study of our institutions for advanced education. Their report on the advantages offered in this country for the higher education of women was so good that the empress of China directed that several Chinese women be selected from the best families and sent over to take a course of study. They are to study the English language and literature and learn the customs and habits of cultured American women. As their coming is the first experiment of the kind among high-class Chinese, it is believed that the future education of the Chinese women will depend largely on their success. Some persons who are supposed to be in position to know assert that the empress of the Chinese purposes to leave the bulk of her large private fortune to advance the cause of the higher education of women. They say that the three pupils at Wells College are her own selection, and that she intends them to become, if not managing trustees of the fund which she will create, prominent leaders in the new movement.

different languages at the class day exercises in the college forum. Under the caption, defined on the program as "polyglot melange," the assorted greetings will be in English, Chinese, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian and Russian.

Four of those chosen to extend greetings will speak their native tongues. Italian greetings will be conveyed by Nicola Spinelli, formerly an instructor in an advanced school in Venice, who came to this country and Temple College to get a thorough training in English. He will return to Italy shortly after commencement.

Miss Emilia Goldberg will speak in Russian. She is an exile from that country on account of her political utterances and though desirous of returning to preach to her people, the Czar's edicts. have made any such action a dangerous

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flooding of the faculty with requests from merchants that the students be compelled to settle their obligations. Some of these complaints have been made in former years, but it is said that never before have they reached the proportions of the present year.

It is declared that many of the outstanding bills are due from students who come from homes of wealth and whose allowance is sufficient to enable them to pay as they go. Some of these, however, have chosen to contract bills and spend their ready cash in social diversions. Others have attempted to live beyond their means, with the result that they are now in serious financial straits.

In relating the experiences of some Yale expert linguists abroad, where they were unable to order a cab in Cherbourg on the landing, and could not ask for a cup of coffee in Germany, the Yale undergraduate organ, the Daily News, called the French and German Modern

Language club of the university to account for this deplorable ignorance of a speaking knowledge of these various languages. The News says that parents who take their sons to Europe directly after graduation from Yale find when they land at Cherbourg that the college men can't understand what is said to them. Hackmen, as well as old folks, wonder of what practical use a college education can be.

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Bowdoin College has received reports from 192 students resident at the college, of whom 167 have earned part or all of their college expenses. The amounts