long ago by President Buckham of the University of Vermont is recalled to mind, and seems to us even better. "A gentleman is more thoughtful of others' privileges than of his own rights, more thoughtful of others' rights than of his own privileges." And yet accepting this latter definition as expressing all that the word should mean we ask on second thought, does it, or, if it does, do we know any gentleman, and are forced to admit that they are very few. In society a gentleman is commonly supposed to be an individual with acceptable manners, one who presents a fairly creditable appearance and a demeanor unobtrusive in the world in which he moves-nothing more seems to be expected, and even this is more rare than would be supposed. A well-known society woman remarked the other day: "I can count the gentlemen of my acquaint ance on the fingers of one hand." Possibly she had in mind Secretary Bonaparte's or even President Buckham's definition of the word, in which case her statement would not seem so severe. While Harvard was dedicating its new medical school buildings the University of Aberdeen was celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of its foundation. Four hundred years seems a most respectable antiquity to Americans, but in reality Aberdeen is among the younger of the distinguished European universities. Just when Cambridge was founded is a question for antiquarians to settle, but even if we doubt the accuracy of the statement that it dates as an organized seat of learning from the year 635 we know that it was the resort of scholars in those dim, dark days whose only records are scanty chronicles. Oxford claims more than 1,000 years of authentic history, and the University of Paris asserts seniority over Oxford. Bologna is almost twice the age of Aberdeen. Though the Pi Eta Society of Harvard University is only forty years old this fall, and a young organization in comparison with some other clubs of Harvard, it is nevertheless a strong social factor. Its present clubhouse, formerly the Porter homestead, in Winthrop square, was purchased in 1893, and entirely renovated to suit the new demands, and in 1897 a commodious theatre ad joining the clubhouse was built. Properly to commemorate the fortieth anniversary, however, and partly to meet the growing requirements among the members for greater comfort and convenience, it is proposed to move away the old house and to build on its site a new and ampler house of brick with sandstone trimmings. The new house which will be fifty-eight feet long by forty wide, will cost about $35,000, and will be generally Colonial in style to harmonize with the other brick buildings in the college yard. A balustrade will surmount the roof on three sides. FADS AND EANCIES OF THE COLLEGE MAN That apparel oft proclaims the man, or the class to which the man belongs, is illustrated among the students of Harvard University. They have always taken a special pride in the distinctive character of their clothing. "College spirit" is a quality much more difficult to identify than "college style." It is a matter of common knowledge that college men can be distinguished by their dress. "College There must always be some one pe culiarity about the collegiate get-up. This must be striking enough to excite remark. About it may be grouped as many other idiosyncrasies as the wearer may wish. At times, the insistence on this one peculiarity must be rather painful; for regardless of the personal equation in the matter, everybody has to wear the same thing. Before President Roosevelt became associated with the fads and fancies of the great world; when, as editor on a college magazine, no thought of attacking the spelling of his mother tongue had come to him, he was embellished with side whiskers. That was the "open sesame" of college gates in his day. True, whiskers have ceased to be an article of raiment since primeval man twisted his into a rude frock coat; but that was the keystone of the university fashion, you understand; not worn for convenience, but for effect. Add to that a white hat like an inverted bean pot, a pair of trousers with perfectly round legs, as though the wearer had stepped into two china umbrella stands, a dapper cane, and you have the Harvard Chesterfield of the late 70's. The attire is just as discriminative, though entirely different, now. The hat may be felt or straw, as suited to the season. Who needs to be told that it has to be trained up in front and down behind? Who does not know that the more kaleidoscopic the assemblage of colors on the band is the better? The jacket is worn eight sizes too large and too long. The trousers flap loosely about within a radius of three or four feet from the wearer; they are invariably turned up to reveal socks colored to vie with the hatband. The shoes are cut decollette and usual ly present the appearance of having been made for the purpose of administering kicks. By some authorities, though, it is claimed that this type of footwear is going into a decline, and is soon to be succeeded by dancing pumps, which are fashioned with more grace and elegance, and hence become the rest of the gear better. The dancing pumps have pretty bows. They may be seen upon many tasteful young gentlemen this season. "College style" has successfully withstood the carping of crude untutored minds; and hostile criticism has failed to disturb the noiseless tenor of its way. It has been a law to itself; a hard law which looks with severity upon all who do not conform with its dictates. One might as well be dead as out of college style in colleges. of its supporters, though this very belief. has suffered some rude shocks by the increasing arrivals of foreign intruders at Harvard in even more remarkable vestments than those of the old guard of fashion. And there lies the extreme danger of the final decline and fall of the empire of college sartorial precedence. Disaffected and independent students, to say nothing of those whose lack of perception, or deliberate iconoclasm, seems to give them an air of liberal opinion, are beginning to raise the deuce with tradition. And more telling blows are coming from sources innocent of all inten tion. Harvard is a cosmopolitan institution. Its student body is recruited from all parts of the civilized world, and many newcomers register-even from Chicago. Of late years the foreign element has become very pronounced, and the clothes. the members of the element bring with them are more pronounced still. pression of old Heidelberg left in the Who remembers having seen the imcollege yard by two very starchy and correct German lieutenants, whose uniforms stuck out like Anthony's nose on the Hudson, to the mortification and chagrin of all "college style" champions? Those lieutenants took mightily in the eyes of the girls, who found the attraction of the straps and buttons-in favor of which their sex is said to be prejudiced-enough to outweigh all the other sartorial considerations in sight. That means, in simple language, that the lieutenants put the kibosh on the college style. It was an awful blow. Then followed the almond-eyed celestials, the blandly urbane children of the extreme orient, courteous and winning, and clothed more like the lilies of the field than even Solomon in all his glory. The yellow peril discounted college style again, until for awhile its stock was way below par. Just as soon as it began to pick up some Englishmen came over and set it At least that is the self sufficient belief tottering. Only for the prevalent An glomania in the university, the event might have proven calamitous. Harvard good form prescribes a moderate enthusiasm for English institutions. It is noticeable that many freshmen become infected with a broader accent, supposed to conform with British. usage, after a short while in college. "Blawsted" and "jolly well" and "by jove" mingle with their speech; on the football field they give "three long Hawvards and three times three for Hawvard," the customary English, "tiger" being omitted-perhaps out of courtesy to Princeton. Of late college style has been on a swiftly rising tide in Cambridge. Hats have been rising higher in front and sinking farther in the back, trousers have been rolling up farther and farther. The dancing pump in which the fascinating college boy trips fastidiously over the campus already threatens, as previously stated, to supersede the college shoe. And now-infamy of infamies!-come Amar and Gopal Singh from India-two Hindoos-who are attracting more attention than all the other students combined! They wear a modified form of their native costume, with turbans of old gold color, and both Amar and Gopal have beards. Though the avowed purpose of these inoffensive strangers to our shores is the search for further educational light, their arrival will have a more far-reaching influence. It is a death blow at a fashion which is already getting trite. Where does the college hat triumph over the old gold turban? Where the college trousers, however they may bag, exceed the nether integuments with which we have grown familiar in pic tures of India? O, why should the spirit of mortal be proud over dancing pumps, when from Punjab come boots that turn up at the toes into pretty points; boots that run halfway up the legs? Toll the bell; ring the knell, and let the dying echoes answer that the bright sun of college style must set at Harvard! We welcome these Hindoos; they represent a learning supposed to be oldest, a religion said to be the most complex, and a social system with the most welldefined aristocracy on earth. They pay us a high compliment in coming; we find gratification and pleasure in the fact that they are here. But when Hindoos come over the threshold, college style flees out at the window. What is the college man to do? Must he, in his turn, seek the old world with his extravagances of dress, to haunt the universities of the east? Ah, that is the one evident solution of the problem. If our home industries are protected, our college style surely should be. It is certainly an infant industry. As it is not protected the indicated arrangement that should exist is one of reciprocity. Pack the American college style into the American college grip, and let the discomfited American college sport carry the whole thing abroad to gladden the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Vienna, Cracow, Cologne, Goettingen, Jena, Berlin, Bonn, Prague, Glasgow, Edinburg, Dorpat, Kharkoff, Odessa, Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Punjab, New Zealand, Adelaide, Good Hope, Zagrab -anywhere, everywhere that a Christian soul can possess itself with content in conspicuous clothes. He will be hailed over there as the exception, and looked upon with the mild wonder that he feels is his right. Besides, some of those colleges need the money. OBITUARY Dr. Charles D. McIlver, president of the State Normal and Industrial College of Greensboro, N. C., died on the train near Raleigh, on September 17th. He had been president of this institution since it was established, and was an educator of national reputation. Dr. McIlver was born in Moore County, N. C., in 1860. He was a graduate of the University of North Carolina. In 1886 he joined the faculty of the Peace Institute, at Raleigh. During this time he conducted teachers' institutes in nearly every county of the State. He acted as superintendent of the summer normal schools; was for a time president of the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly; was a member of the executive Committee of the Teachers' Assembly; was a member of the executive committee of the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina, and was chairman of the committee of the Teachers' Assembly which secured in 1891 the establishment of an annual appropriation for the North Carolina Normal and Industrial College, which he established in 1892, and of which he was president at the time of his death. Dr. Albert Hurd, the oldest college professor and one of the best known educators of the West, died September 2nd, at his home in Galesburg, Ill. Dr. Hurd was born in Canada, but received his education in Middlebury, Vt., graduating in 1850. He then took a course in Science under Professor Agassiz, coming to Knox College in 1851. He occupied the chair of chemistry and natural science, and since 1897 had been professor of Latin. At times when the college was without a president he served as acting chief. Robert S. Paden, a well-known writer on mathematics and economics, died suddenly of heart disease, September 18th, at Glen, Mich. Mr. Paden was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1853. George P. Lord, President of the Elgin Academy of Northwestern University, and Trustee of Beloit College, died September 14th, at his home in Elgin, Ill. President Lord was born at Leroy, N. Y., in 1820. Professor Buell B. Colton, a veteran member of the faculty of the Illinois. State Normal University, died suddenly on September 7th, at Bloomington, Ill. Professor Buell was fifty years old, and was one of the most prominent ethnologists of the West. He was also widely known for his researches in natural history. Rev. Thomas J. Walsh, aged 28, professor of mathematics and history in the Cathedral College, Chicago, died on September 2nd, at his home in Joliet, Ill. He was appointed a member of the faculty of the college at its organization a year ago. Rev. Walsh was educated at Baltimore, and took his degrees in Rome, Italy. Colonel F. W. Blees, founder of Blees Military Academy, Macon, Mo., was found dead in his room at St. Louis, on September 7th. Colonel Blees was once a German officer, who came to America almost penniless and afterward inherited an estate worth several millions from his family in Germany. Colonel Blees thought that every American youth ought to have a military training, and when he came into this inheritance, established the military school which bears his name. Hon. Edward H. Dunn, president of the corporation and one of the founders of Boston University, died September 4th, at his home in Boston. Mr. Dunn was born in the South End of Boston in 1826. He graduated at the Eliot School at the age of thirteen, and spent one year in an academy at South Reading. Mr. Dunn was deeply interested in the cause of education, and in the formation period of the Boston University project he gave his time and abilities to it, and was then and afterward its generous benefactor. John Torrey Morse, the oldest graduate of Harvard University, and sole survivor of the class of 1832, died September 20th, at his home in Boston. Mr. Morse was ninety-three years of age. the work of these respective organizations, in establishing, preserving, and interpreting in common terms the standards of admission to college, in order to accommodate migrating students, and to secure just understanding and administration of standards,' unanimously agreed to a series of resolutions. The substance of their findings is as follows: The first recommended to the various organizations that the colleges which accept certificates recognize the validity of the certificates from all schools accredited by the New England College Entrance Certificate Board, and schools accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The second approved the definitions and standards established by the College Entrance Examination Board, and recommended that the various associations of colleges and preparatory schools cooperate with the board in formulating and revising, when desirable, these definitions. The third recommended that a permanent commission be established for the purpose of considering from time to time. entrance requirements and matters of mutual interest to colleges and preparatory schools. This commission is to be composed of delegates from the several organizations participating in the Williamstown conference, and also from the New England College Entrance Certificate Board. The fourth recommendation to the associations of the colleges and preparatory schools of the Middle States and of the Southern States, that each consider the desirability of organizing a college certificating board or a commission for accrediting schools. The fifth declared that, in the judgment of the conference, it was extremely important that all examinations for admission to college, whether set by a board or by a college, should be either prepared or reviewed by persons who had experience as teachers in secondary schools. These resolutions will be reported to the several organizations represented in the conference, for their consideration and approval. The following delegates, representing the New England, the Middle States and Maryland, the North Central, and the Southern Associations of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, and the College Entrance Examination Board, and the National Association of State Universities, were present: Dr. William C. Collar, Roxbury, Mass.; Prof. Herman V. Ames, University of Pennsylvania; President Geo. E. MacLean, the State University of Iowa; Prof. Frederick W. Moore, Vanderbilt University; President Wilson Farrand, Newark, N. J.; and President |