The University of Illinois has recently issued a complete record of the alumni of the institution, together with much. other material of a historical and biographical nature. This Alumni Record is a volume of 710 pages, containing thirty-one pages of annuals of the institution, biographies of 2,540 baccalaureate, twenty-six graduate and thirtytwo honorary alumni; of 284 members of the faculty, past and present, not graduates of the University of Illinois; of seventy-seven members of boards of trustees, and the names and addresses of 374 students who were given degrees in 1906. It contains also a directory of alumni associations, and a geographical and a biographical index.

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five illustrations, and an introduction by President James.

An ancient custom disappeared at Yale. when the exclusive exclusive senior societies stopped wearing their pins displayed. The three, Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, and Wolf's Head, have removed their pins from sight, Scroll and Key being last to give up wearing insignia

of the craft.

Students, faculty and alumni of the Harvard Medical School are uniting to raise $10,000 to purchase a life annuity for James Skillen, who is about to retire after faithfully serving them as janitor for 29 years. One-half the amount has already been subscribed. When Skillen was made janitor, in 1877, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was at the head of the anatomical department, and in many details of his work and in lectures was assisted by the janitor. The friendship between Dr. Holmes and his assistant was always strong, and even intimate. "James," the author said to him several times, "you are a slave to duty. that is one of the highest kinds of service any one can perform for the betterment of the world."

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The omission of the old custom of the Yale freshman-sophomore rush through York street in front of the freshman dormitories is taken by Yale undergraduates to mean that the faculty of the university will try to prevent the turbulence on the city streets which brought the freshmen last year into disrepute and led to general complaint on the part of citizens and numerous clashes between students and the police. Owners of private dormitories had police officers on duty all night, and blue coats were posted every fifty feet until long after midnight. The abolition of the rush also did away with any street disturbance and the hazing of freshmen was done in the college dormitories and with much noise. The mettle of the freshmen may be tested later on and several plans for this are on foot, even to a revival of the Omega Lambda Chi, which the faculty abolished some years ago. The faculty of the Scientific School is enforcing its decision to abolish Freshman row in Temple street, one of the localities in which disturbances were so

frequent last spring that the city attorney

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one time held thirty complaints against students and brought a number of them into court. At the opening of the college year the anticipation is that the upper class men will exercise greater influence over the freshmen and sophomores and relieve the faculties of the several departments from enforcing a number of restrictions which had been thought would be necessary to keep order.

A new plan for the help of poor students was started at Harvard when the new textbook loan library was thrown open. About 300 textbooks, covering most of the large courses in college, were collected by the social service committee last spring, and they have been placed in the Phillips Brooks house.

This number will be added to during the half year, and by the beginning of next year it is hoped to have a large library that will cover all of the courses in the university, and to have a large number of textbooks for the larger courses. The library is designed for the use of men who are not able to buy textbooks, and the books will be loaned for the time of the course. A small deposit will be nequired when they are given out, but the deposit will be refunded when the books are returned. This whole affair was undertaken and carried out by the undergraduates who make up the social service.

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A decision of interest to every American student who desires to enter Berlin University has just been made.

The recently issued catalogue of the university, containing the conditions for entrance, stated that on presenting diplomas from high schools or gymnaiums, all applicants except English and Americans would be required to show diplomas giving the degree of B. A. or M. A. Dr. Dickie, pastor of the American Church in Berlin, took up the matter with Dr. Althoff, head of the university bureau of the ministry of edu

of the girl students a dollar and told them to return it to him with its earnings at the next college day celebration. The money will be devoted to the endowment fund. There were 240 of the girls who received a dollar each, and from reports there will be several hundred dollars returned from the dollar investments. One girl earned $4 by selling garden truck; four girls went over to a Michigan summer resort, hired the launches and made $100 running short lake excursions. Others did equally well. About $50,000 is still needed to complete the $250,000 endowment for the school, and this has been promised by Andrew Carnegie.

A students' sick fund is the latest movement to be put on foot among the students of the University of Kansas. For some time a committee from the faculty have been working for the establishing of such a fund at the university, but nothing definite had been done. The recent diphtheria scarce in Lawrence brought the matter to a head and representatives from all classes, the fraternities, eating clubs and other organizations of the university met to discuss plans for the adoption of such a scheme. The sentiment of the meeting was entirely in favor of the movement and a committee was appointed to meet with the faculty committee on health and draw up plans for establishing a fund.

The general plan upon which the committee is working is to make a voluntary assessment of 50 cents from each student, which entitles them to free medical and hospital services. There has been no general epidemic amoung the students of the university for years, and the establishment of a sick fund is taken purely as a precautionary measure.

The directors of Memorial Hall at Harvard are facing a new problem: How to police a thousand students. That, and more, is the number of men who take three meals daily in the great dining hall of Harvard, and whether or not to try to discipline them is now the question.

For 800 men to pound the dishes when a man comes into the visitors' gallery without removing his hat has been, in the words of a recent ivy orator, "the custom from time immemorial." Scenes of the wildest commotion have ensued when a visitor, not realizing the cause of the first disturbance, has removed his hat in deference to the applause and then replaced it on his head. But this year the disturbance is not confined to such cases alone. The mere appearance of a visitor, male or female (and oftener in the case of female visitors), is the signal for the pounding to begin, and it was kept up with increasing vim till the visitors retreat in dismay and disorder.

The management of the hall has so far vainly taken all the steps in its power to restrain such demonstrations, and as a result on the dinner menu card has appeared a notice to the effect that the directors were empowered to expel at once any member of the Harvard Dining Association "for disorderly or ungentlemanly conduct." The directors may, as a last resort, be compelled to close the gallery to all visitors during meal hours. But this step will not be taken if it can be avoided, for the custom of admitting sightseers to this gallery is as old as the hall; and the view from this point during the dinner hour is esteemed one of the most remarkable sights of the university.

It is believed by many that the disturbances originate with groups of freshmen who do not understand that the sport is to be indulged in only at the expense of the unlucky guest who ventures in without taking his hat off. The undergraduates themselves are indifferent about it as a whole, though there are some who are warmly opposed to the custom of being placed on exhibition at meals, for the benefit of people who wish "to see the animals feed," as they phrase it. All the upper classmen, however, are opposed to the indiscriminate rapping on tumblers at the appearance of any guest, and the moment it begins they also begin to cry, "Freshmen!" "Shut up!" and "Cut it out," which only increases the confusion, and is inter

preted by the bewildered visitors as a personal comment on their exterior or behavior.

Professor John Grier Hibben contributes to the Alumni Weekly a report on the progress of Princeton which contains a summary of present conditions that should be of interest to every son of Old Nassau. These reports will be made through the columns of the Weekly three times a year. In the present article Professor Hibben devotes much space to the changes that the last few months have made on Princeton campus.

"Many changes," he says, "have taken place. Unless one has visited Princeton in the last three or four years, he can have no adequate conception of the improvements. The line made by Little and Blair halls on the western border of the campus is being extended along University place as far as the observatory, and it is expected that the extension of Blair Hall will be finished by next February. It will accommodate about thirty students.

"Patton Hall, the gift of the ten classes from 1892 to 1901, inclusive, has been completed and was opened for occupancy this fall, with rooms for about 150 students. Extending the impressive line formed by Blair, Little and the new gymnasium, this dormitory is a handsome addition to the campus, on the east side of Brokaw field. It is hoped that by next spring ten additional classes will have given another dormitory, to be erected to the south of Patton Hall, and forming, with Patton Hall and the gymnasium, a quadrangle around Brokaw field.

"McCosh Hall, now under construction, is also in the Tudor-Gothic style of architecture-an imposing lecture and recitation hall much needed at Princeton, and a fitting memorial to the late President McCosh. It is situated parallel to and a few feet north of McCosh Walk, extending from Marquand Chapel to Washington street, with an L on that street, and forming the beginning of a quadrangle to inclose the academy lot. It is hoped that a portion of McCosh

Hall will be available for use at the beginning of the ensuing second term.

"The grading of the rear portion of the Passage property, making it a part of the campus, has been completed. This is the property on Nassau street between the Guyot and the Carpenter lots. It was presented to the university last spring by a number of alumni.

"Princeton Lake, the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, will be approximately three and three-quarters miles long, one end at Kingston and the other at the Pennsylvania Railroad crossing above the basin. Its width varies from 300 to 1,000 feet, the entire area of the lake being approximately 1,200 acres. This enterprise has no official connection with Princeton University, but will add greatly to the enjoyment of the students. beautifying the place and affording them an opportunity in the spring and fall for sailing and rowing, and in the winter for skating and ice boating. The dam at Kingston is now completed, and it is expected that the water will be in the lake before winter."

In an effort to give all freshmen a chance to "start even" and to reduce still further the opportunity for class and "prep school" politics, the athletic committee has decided to cut away from the sacred class policy at Yale and to have the freshman football team managed by members of the junior class. There are several reasons why this change was needed. In the first place, the elections must necessarily occur early in the year, and it is almost impossible for an entering class to become well acquainted in the short period prior to the freshman managership elections. Freshman politics was the natural result, men from the large preparatory schools usually received the elections because they were well known by their classmates at school, and the man who came from a small school and therefore comparatively unknown at first, did not have a chance.

Furthermore, the men who have been elected managers of their freshman associations have almost invariably become

managers of the corresponding university associations. Nearly all of the managers of recent years are said to have been excellent men for their positions, but this does not alter the fact that it is bad for a man to be practically assured of an important university office within. a comparatively few weeks after his arrival at college. The new policy meets with general approval and will be put into force for the freshman crew and nine, if it works out successfully.

Harvard is looking for a mascot to take the place of John the Orangeman, who died in the summer. His daughter, Katherine Lovet, aspires to succeed him, and so does "Butler" Walker, the leading "hot hog" man in Harvard Square. Student sentiment is all for Katherine. She is likely to sell the peanuts, while "Mugsey" Shuegrue, her urchin helper, will do the customary consigning of Yale to a somewhat milder climate.

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Princeton University last month commemorated the 160th anniversary of its founding. The university is the outgrowth of Log College, founded by William Lambert, who was born in Ireland, educated in Edinburgh, ordained priest, and who, on coming to America, became a Presbyterian. The original college edifice, called Nassau Hall, 176 feet long, 50 feet wide and four stories high, was at the time of its erection the largest building in the colonies. Among the chief collegiate buildings are Nassau, Alexander and Blair halls, Marquand Chapel, an art museum, a museum of geology and archæology and the Halstead Observatory. The library contains nearly 250,000 volumes and the students number over 1,500. From the time of its foundation Princeton has been the stronghold of Presbyterianism in this country. Under Dr. James McCosh Princeton grew from a comparatively small college to one of the leading universities of the country. Dr. McCosh was one of the old school Presbyterians, and during the formative period of scientific religious thought held

firmly to the old line theology of the Calvinistic creed. With the death of Dr. McCosh and the advent of the Rev. Dr. Francis L. Patton as president of the institution in 1888, the philosophic

administration of Princeton underwent a distinct change. Dr. Patton recognized the necessity of taking into account the discoveries of modern science as factors in religious thought. He remained a strict Presbyterian and Princeton a strictly Presbyterian institution, but at the same time encouraged the investigation of religious creed along the modern lines of science. When Dr. Patton retired, in 1902, Professor Woodrow Wilson, the well-known historian, economist and sociologist, was elected to succeed him.

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At the time of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary a movement started for developing the university that has made this decade a period of the most remarkable growth in the history of Princeton. During this decade the endowment has almost been doubled, the increase being from $1,677,871.17 of total endowment in 1896, to $3,284,000 in 1906. The area of the campus has more than doubled, having increased from 225 acres in 1896 to 538 acres at present.

The enrollment of students has increased steadily year by year, from 1,045 in 1896 to the 1.384 given in the last issue of the university catalogue.

And the number of alumni in the classes graduated during the last decade is equal to the number now living of all the classes graduated previous to 1896.

A new prize in mathematics has recently been established at Columbia in memory of John Dash Van Buren, Jr., who died shortly after his graduation in 1905. The prize is to be the annual income on $5,000.

The alumni of the University of Illinois are to have a magazine, probably a quarterly, to be launched as soon as arrangements can be made. Frank W. Scott, who has recently completed the

first edition of the Alumni Record, has been chosen editor.

The freshman directory at Harvard shows a registration of only thirty-four first year men in the Lawrence Scientific School. There are no first year special men in this department this year. Last year there were seventy-four firstyear regulars in the scientific school the other hand, there is a gain of just and sixty-four first-year specials. On about one hundred freshmen in regular standing in the college and about seventy-five more first-year college specials this year than last.

Unless the students of Northwestern

University show an unexpected disapproval weekly segregated chapel services will be instituted. One day out of every week the men students and the women students will gather in separate halls for the daily religious service. The faculty has announced its intention to follow last year's experiment, which met with success only after the objections of 100 coeds, who went out on a strike for their right to mingle with the men, were overcome.

Freshmen of Chicago University in the future are to wear emblems of their verdant stage in the form of green hats. The headgear has been prescribed by the members of the sophomore class, and the "freshies" accordingly will have to endure it. The edict has gone forth that Chicago University, even if smelling a little of varnish and fresh woodwork, must have customs, and the green freshman bonnet is only one of a series of made to order traditions which are to be carefully unboxed as time goes on.

An important step was taken in Harvard debating recently when it was determined to make the debate with Yale, which will be held in Sanders' Theater this fall, open to all members of the university. university. Heretofore an admission charge of fifty and seventy-five cents.