has been charged to all the intercollegiate debates. In recent years the attendance to these debates has been very slender and the new scheme has been adopted in hopes of reviving interest in them. The expenses of the university will hereafter be defrayed by a general student subscription, each man being asked to contribute one dollar.

The New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University has received a gift of $30,000 for the foundation of six agricultural scholarships. Tuition in the college is free to students from New York State, and the scholarships will be a substantial help toward living expenses. Director L. H. Bailey says that other gifts for the same purpose are expected. The scholarships will be awarded through competition.

Fifty ghosts who did the wierd dance. of the Brocken in flowing sheets under green shrouded lamps at the Western Reserve University Hallowe'en night, surprised a ghost in peg tops in the middle of the dance, and held him prisoner for three hours.

It was the junior Hallowe'en party of the year. Sheets and pillow cases, smuggled from the dormitories, moved through the east end after dark. They

all went to Clark Hall. There was a guard at the door. She knew voices like a book. Emilie came in a pillow case. Dorothy "just floated" in a real long sheet. The man slipped by when traffic was heavy. He tiptoed to a corner. Doors were barred, lights shaded, and the whirl began.

The Brocken dance criss-crossed with

a George Cohan chorus, leaped into the classic, and nudged back down again into the commonplace of the Edison record. They hummed. They whirled. One ghost sat in the corner, longing for a cigarette.

On with the dance. All was abandon. Then the grand march began. All fell in, even the peg top intruder. He was a mystery before. He reached for his pockets. The secret was out. The sheet

contributions of $114,419, or somewhat less than was reported at last commencement. It far exceeds any previous year, surpasses the year 1904-5 by $60,944, and makes the contributions to date $376,190. Of this, $190,305 has gone to the alumni permanent fund, and the rest to annual income. There are 378 more contributions than in 1904-5, the total number having risen to 2,875.

As was expected, the "reunion" class give the largest amounts, the class of '66 giving $9,873; '76, $15,000; '81, $25,000 '86, $15,000, and '96, $5,524. The association has asked that $10,000 of the amount given to income be appropriated to increase of salaries of the teaching staff. The fund has become of the utmost importance to the university, not merely owing to its size and regular annual payment, but to its flexibility and adjustment to annual needs. Some complaint has been heard, however, in regard to using the commencement reunions as a time for seeking contributions to that and other Yale funds.

The new residential catalogue of Yale graduates will soon be published. It will not contain this year the summaries and other residential statistics, and they will be printed in the next volume to appear two years hence. On a basis of returns for about 99 per cent of living Yale. graduates, it will show about 13,500 such graduates, the Yale graduates dead and living now numbering about 23,000. In occupations, which the catalogue will return, the tendency of Yale graduates. continues somewhat away from the professions and into business.

The report of the committee on employment for students at Columbia University, which has just been issued, shows that during the last academic year Columbia students earned $104,240. The amount earned in vacation, if included, would make this sum much larger.

Five hundred and eighty-one students applied for aid. Of this number only thirty-eight failed to obtain employment. The students each earned from $50 to $500. The amount mentioned in the report includes the earnings of only 313

students, as the rest failed to make reports.

Of the 313 students there were twenty-seven women who earned $3,059, an average of $117 apiece. Some worked in offices after college hours; others did tutoring. A small source of income that is open to Barnard girls is the Students' Exchange, where fancy work and candy made by the students find a ready sale. One girl, in Bernard, beginning by making things for the Students' Exchange in her junior year, was able in her senior year to pay her entire

expenses.

The students in the graduate schools have the largest incomes, averaging $284. The law school men come nearest to the graduate school, averaging $202.

Cornell thinks that it is big enough to stand on its own feet without aid and assistance of any other university. For some time past it has been the custom of various Ithacan authorities, the Cornell Sun among others, to hold up Princeton as a model for Cornell life. This year's senior class has taken the lead in discrediting this habit, and the Widow has an editorial comment on the matter that is being widely read. It runs as follows:

The Cornell Widow has a deeprooted and lingering affection for Princeton University, and so has Cornell University as a body. But when we come down to our shredded wheat biscuit and hash in the morning, surrounded by that atmosphere of irritable nervousness which generally precedes an 8 o'clock, we object strongly to having the Cornell Daily Sun inform us, day after day, that we must do so-andso because it's done so-and-so at Princeton. Cornell University has rustled along for some time now on her own lines; and at the time of this writing the average person seldom asks how to spell "Cornell." The Widow firmly believes that this university is old enough and self-reliant enough to exist for another generation or two without instituting the customs of any other univer

sity. It has been suggested that if the Sun does not hold that belief, it might found another university, to be called Princeton, Jr.

Miss Elsie Plantz, daughter of President Samuel Plantz of Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., and Irwin W. Church of Menominee Falls, a graduate of the last class of Lawrence University, will receive Carnegie hero medals because of their work during the winter of 1904-1905 in saving the lives of three Lawrence girls who had broken through the ice in Fox river.

The proceeds from the Agamemnon of Aeschylus, produced under the direction of the Greek department at Harvard last June, amounted to between $4,000 and $5,000. The money will be devoted to the uses of the department. The palace built for the play, which cost about $2,500, was sold for $1,750 to the class of 1906, and was used at the stadium exercises on Class Day in place of the temporary structure usually built to enclose the curved part of the Stadium. The class of 1906 expects to sell the palace at a reduction to this year's senior class.

There will be a number of changes at Harvard this year and some important innovations. The new graduate school of applied science, the creation of the late Dean N. S. Shaler and his colleagues, will begin its first year of work. This year not many men are expected in the school, as the courses of study require preliminary work equal in scope to that required at present for the degree of bachelor of science. No dean of the new school has been named, nor has a dean of the Lawrence Scientific School been named to take the place left vacant by Dean Shaler's death. In the course of three years the old Lawrence Scientific School will have become wholly merged with the present Harvard College and the two departments will be conducted under one head.

A new department of comparative lit

erature has been founded, with courses open to both graduates and undergraduates, requiring no linguistic knowledge other than English. Courses in the new department will be given by Profs. Wendell, Schofield and, in the second halfyear, by Prof. Bliss Perry.

Another innovation is the new system of tuition fees for men in the college and scientific school. Under the old system there was a flat rate of $150 for all men. Now the fee is $150 a year for four courses, except in the freshman year, when a man is allowed to take five. For additional courses an additional fee of $20 a course is charged, thus making the rate for a man finishing in three years the same as that for one finishing in four.

A course of training of Sunday school teachers will be part of the curriculum of the Chicago Kindergarten College, according to an announcement made by Miss Elizabeth Harrison, the director. The course has been arranged for Sunday school teachers who are desirous of adding physiological insight and definite pedagogical methods to their study of the Bible. A class in pedagogy and Bible study forms part of the course. It will be in charge of Georgia Louise Chamberlin.

The Musical Union of Harvard University, which is composed of all the musical organizations, is planning the erection of a new building in connection with the centennial celebration of the Pierian Sodality. A building committee has been appointed to consider plans and a subscription committee will soon be formed to raise the necessary funds for the new structure.

The entire class of 1907 in the Agricultural College at Fort Collins, Col., has been engaged by H. E. Bullock, president of the Malleable Iron Company of Chicago, to go to work on his plantation in Old Mexico as managers of his various departments. Bullock's "farm" in Mexico is a remarkable one, fifty miles

long, in a wonderfully fertile valley within shipping distance of the City of Mexico. The farm is well stocked, and two young men from the dairy school will have charge of a dairy with 1,000 cows. Two of the young men will go as hog experts, and over 1,000 hogs will be intrusted to their care. Bullock examined the machinery at the college for up-todate farming, and will take several of the boys to do his farming by machinery. There are 40,000 acres to be irrigated on this ranch, a large portion of which is to be put into grain, and 130,000 acres of virgin soil is to be cultivated. Much of the work is to be done

by traction engines and gang ploughs, such as are used at the college.

Cabling from Pekin, the correspondent of the London Daily Times says that the annual examination of Chinese graduates educated abroad shows that of nine candidates who gained the Chinese doctorate eight studied in America, the first being a Cantonese who was graduated at Yale University.

James Hazen Hyde, of New York, whose gifts to Harvard for the promotion of interest in the French language and culture already include the foundation of the annual Cercle Francais lectures, a large number of books and special gifts and prizes, has offered this year a cup, to be awarded to the winning team in a Harvard-Yale debate in French, to be held in Cambridge under the auspices of the Cercle Francais. His wish in this gift is to stimulate interest in the French language on a different side from that now represented by the annual Cercle Francais play. Four men, to be selected by competition, will constitute each team, and a call for candidates has already been issued.

The fact that American ideals are penetrating the earth was brought to notice at Notre Dame University recently by the receipt of an application for a catalogue of the university from a native of Egypt. The card is written in English,

red ink being used by the writer. It is directed to the president of the university and reads as follows:

"Assiout, Egypt-President of Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Ind.-Dear Sir: Please for the sake of God be kind to me by sending your catalogu. Thanking you for this great favor. Yours Crediently,

"MOURCOS HUNNA HABASHEY."

A dispatch from New Haven informs us that nearly every student at the commons table in Yale University is or has been violently ill as a consequence of eating chicken hash, which was the principal dish at last Wednesday's breakfast, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. As many of the students as were able held a mass meeting, decided that ptomaine poisoning was the cause of the violent illness among the students, and placed a solemn ban upon chicken hash at all Yale tables hereafter.

Now, the chances are that chicken hash had nothing whatever to do with. the violent illness of the students, if they were violently ill, or with their mild illness, if they were even mildly ill. The human race has been eating chicken hash, mainly at the breakfast table, as far back almost as it has been eating anything, and it is one of the most remarkable facts of history that chicken hash eaters are as a rule among the healthiest people. A cursory glance over the lives of some of our most conspicuous men will show that most of them at one time or another in the course of their career were addicted to eating chicken hash. There are conditions under which suspicion must naturally attach to chicken hash. One of these is where chicken is served in no other form. No boardinghouse which makes it a rule not to serve chicken for dinner should serve chicken hash for breakfast. It may not be noticed by the boarders at first, but in time it creates a bad impression.

When boarders are graduated from boarding houses and college commons, and set up for themselves, they often wonder why it was that they had chicken hash so often and chicken in any other

form so seldom. Before they begin to have a table full of growing children. they see that chicken hash, in due course, follows chicken as naturally as day follows night. In the family of two, or two and a baby, or even two and a baby and a 4-year-old boy, after chicken comes cold chicken, which is followed by stewed chicken, which is followed by chicken hash, that is, if the young woman who has charge of the domestic affairs of the establishment knows her business, and she generally does.

Before we would consent to believe that chicken hash had anything to do with the sickness of the Yale students we should first wish to know when chicken was served to them last, and why enough of it was left to make the hash. There was once a boardinghouse in a Western town where chicken hash was served every morning in the year. The question arose among the boarders as to where the chicken for the hash came from, since chicken was never served in any other manner. vestigation proved that the chicken in the hash was veal.

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It was probably veal from one of the favored Eastern packing-houses, canned for chicken hash, that made the Yale students sick. It could not have been real chicken hash, and the Yale students have a great deal to learn yet, if they think it was.

A student senate has been organized at Oberlin College, which it is hoped will prove a very helpful medium for the settlement of all reasonable differences between the faculty and the student body. The senate is to be composed of the most representative undergraduates to whose integrity and judgment even the most delicate questions of policy may safely be submitted. The senate is not to have executive or legislative powers, but it is merely to discuss such questions as may come before it, and thus act as the mouthpiece of student sentiment. In the words of the constitution, it is to "strive in all honor

able and proper ways to advance the interests promotive of the life and wellbeing of Oberlin College."

"Beer Nights" at Harvard College were started several years ago in the students' rooms and in various social clubs. The words were generally added to the bottom of a printed notice of a meeting and often worked like a charm on the recipient of the notice. Last year when the house committee of the Harvard Union sought to build up its membership and when different class committees, especially that of the freshman class, attempted to promote among its members a better acquaintance and a greater feeling of class unity, "beer nights" were very much in vogue at the Union. In fact, the Crimson bristled with notices of "beer nights"; the term began to be generic. About this time Chief of Police Pullen of Cambridge took a hand. He found that it was the custom for a class or a society, through its officers, to buy beer in Boston and dispense it to the members at its meetings. In providing beer in this way the clubs were plainly violating the law, and the classes came under the designation of clubs. But beer is apparently an essential feature of an evening's entertainment among college men and the classes and societies using the Harvard Union as a meeting place this year have arranged a plan by which certain individuals become, from time to time, hosts. These men can entertain in their private club certain guests in any reasonable way they see fit, and it is very easy for beer to be one means of the entertainment. Chief Pullen is in nowise anxious to infringe upon the joys of college youth by holding too strictly to the letter of the law, but, he says, "Why do they not do away with the term 'beer night'? I think it is very undignified and belittling, both to the college and to the city. It does not seem to me that beer should be brought to the fore as the main attraction at a meeting of young men."