The women students at the University of California began early in December to make out their boat crews and to practise for the interclass races, and if possible, will compete with the women students at Stanford University in intercollegiate races. This, if it comes off, will be early in the spring. The races last spring were witnessed by five hundred spectators.

The growth and development of the department of Chinese at Columbia University-the youngest department in the university-has been gradual during the five years of its existence. Dr. B. Laufer has recently joined the department as lecturer, to assist in giving courses in Chinese and also in Tibetan, Mongolian, and Manchu. The results of the work accomplished has been satisfactory, although the number of students has been small. At present, the senior class is composed largely of men who have studied the language for a number of years. The beginning of the present term shows two Japanese, one Chinese, and one American student, all of whom are able to read the language, and are devoting their time to research in Chinese literature. In this, as in former years, the American seniors in attendance are, without exception, missionaries, who have spent between four and eight years in China, intending to return there after a year's study. Student interpreters in the consular service, both of the United States and other countries, have not as yet availed themselves of the opportunities furnished by the department. Four new students preparing for various careers have taken up Chinese elementary studies in the present half-year, and a Japanese has commenced Tibetan under Dr. Laufer, who also has good audiences of non-linguistic students in his ethnological courses on Far-Eastern subjects.

The new Directory of Living Yale Graduates, covering the last two years, though it contains few summaries—most of which will be deferred to the next directory two years hence-allows some computations interesting to Yale gradu

ates.

The directory contains a list of deaths by departments, and, subtracting these from the new degree men, the total number of living Yale graduates is ascertained to be approximately 13,603, as compared with 12,692 up to Sept. 10, 1904. The total number of Yale graduates living and dead up to the present time is 23,303. Of the living graduates, 7,305 are accredited to the academic department, and 3.175 to the Scientific School, the total number of deaths in all departments during the last two years being 346. Out of 954 graduates during the last two years of the academic department and the Scientific Schoolin other words, the two "undergraduate❞ departments-only three have died.

The same directory gives a comprehensive summary of the various Yale alumni organizations, showing that twenty-five alumni associations and groups of them are now represented in the new alumni council. The total number of alumni as'sociations and clubs are fifty-nine, of which seven are divinity school associations. Of the associations seven are in the old slave states of the South, one in Japan and one in China, and almost every state of the Union is represented. Every Yale academic class but one since 1845 keeps up its organization, with its secretary, and the classes of other departments are now much better organized than in past years.

The oldest man in point of graduation in the list is John Hustis of Hustisford, Wis., a farmer, who is the only surviving member of the class of 1833. The class of 1835 has no survivor, and the classes of 1836 and 1837 but one each. The "famous" class of 1853, counting one recent death, has but thirty-one survivors out of a class which numbered 108 at

graduation.

Football is to receive next fall from the faculty of Cornell University every possible assistance in the way of schedule arrangement, according to the Daily Sun. It is interesting to note that this action is taken by the president of one of the largest universities in the Country. The Cornell Daily Sun says: President Schurman announced a few days ago

that next fall the university would arrange to have the study schedules of football men so constructed as to allow the players ample opportunity for afternoon practice. The coaches all agree that irregularity in reporting for work is Cornell's biggest handicap. The president's action was learned with delight.

James Parker, the colored man who captured Czolgosz after he shot President McKinley in Buffalo, and was given a house in Washington and a position as messenger in congress as a reward for his bravery, has started in at the Yale dining hall as a waiter.

The movement to secure a new gymnasium for Harvard University is receiving considerable support, and may assume tangible form in the near future. The inadequacy of the Hemenway gymnasium, built in 1879, has long been a matter of comment, and it is known that Harvard is behind many of the smaller colleges in the quality of its athletic equipment.

The subject is discussed in the leading article of the Harvard Monthly for January. After referring to Harvard's successive defeats on the gridiron, the writer says: "In the first place, we can never develop successful athletic teams until the whole university, faculty and undergraduates, united in policy and spirit, stands behind them. We must either agree to play, or agree not to play; but we must agree. In the second place, we must admit the necessity for giving attention to general physical development throughout the college in order to raise the standard of our men. There is nothing more necessary for this than an adeate and attractive gymnasium."

Michigan is looking for a new uniersity hymn, to be sung on the football neid like the "Orange and the Black" and other dignified college songs of the East. It is believed that suitable words have at length been written, and a musical setting is the next desideratum. The Michigan Inlander publishes the following alma mater song, for which a tune is desired:

Lo, thou hast led us from afar

To learn thy wisdom at thy feet; And guided by the western star Today thy sons and daughters meet Within thy valley hilled around,

Wherein thy stately temple stands Beside the Huron's murmurous soundThy children, come from many lands. From many lands, o'er many seas,

Thy children's children come today. As thou our fathers at thy knees Didst teach thy wisdom, teach, we pray Thy newer children to be wise

And good and true and unafraid, So we may look with open eyes Into life's face, not be dismayed.

Some of the students and members of the faculty of the Law School at Columbia University are urging the establishment of a summer session of ten or eleven weeks. Several attempts have already been made to relieve the congestion of the legal curriculum, and in the last three years seven courses have been cut down from two hours per week for a year to three hours per week for a half year. Advocates of the summer session believe it would satisfy the demand of some students for a shorter law course, by making possible the reduction of the period of residence from three to a fraction over two years.

and odd. But Brown University seems to posses one of the most unique. The Providence emblem of luck is Archibald, the spike-hoofed camel.

Archibald is not a common camel, since he is stuffed with hay and history. Some eighty years ago he was brought from Africa, but died en route. He was placed in the natural history rooms at Providence, but was at peace there only thirty years when something happened. Suddenly he loomed up one morning on the college campus, standing stiff and straight. Sine then every year at midnight on February 21 he has been carried from his stall to be the central figure around which hundreds of the students have danced in the glare of a huge bonfire, a sort of performance in honor of George Washington. Archibald is the mascot at all the college meets games. Though old and decrepit and frayed and worn, with little stability and less hair, yet old Archibald always stands

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proudly in the foremost rank of the crowd and leads the cheering.

Yale athletic officials, encouraged by the gift of a new swimming tank by Andrew Carnegie, are renewing the campaign for a baseball cage and boathouse. Yale alumni have failed to respond to appeals for contributions, and the athletic officials have been compelled to fall back on Walter Camp's "secret athletic" fund of $100,000, which the faculty turned up in their long investigation last winter, as their sole hope for the two new buildings.

The faculty looked on the $100,000, the result of rigid economy for thirteen years by the athletic managers, as accumulated surplus, as a lavish amount for new athletic buildings, but talk that it might partially go toward a new stadium has been quieted by the statement that the boathouse will cost more than $50,000 and the cage as much. A year ago plans were issued by the officials of the crew for a boathouse which they thought would cost about $35,000. And examination of the plans showed that they were inadequate for such extensive plans as the rowing heads desire and which are already in effect at Harvard.

The penny lunch kitchens, which are being maintained by the Women's School Alliance of Milwaukee are featured as model institutions which are being copied throughout the country. The latest inquiry as to their conduct comes from New York city, the committee on welfare of school children of the United Charities office having written to Mrs. C. B. Whitnall asking for information, with a view to duplicating the system there.

A bill passed by the British parliament provides for the alleviation of distress among school children who are insufficiently fed at home. It is estimated that in London there are 122,000 such children, and these will now receive such aid as the needy children in Paris have had since 1867. The first efforts in France were made through the benevolence of what are called school fund societies. In 1882 these benevolent school societies were made compulsory throughout France, and now every child going to school who needs either food or clothing receives it at their hands. A midday meal of warm, wholesome food is served the children. To those who can not pay for this meal a meal ticket is given identical in appearance with that given to those who pay the tariff rate, which is about 2 cents. In 1904 out of

9,229,278 portions distributed in Paris. 5,974,359 were gratuitous.

German scientists are engaged in excavating a very interesting spot in Asia Minor-the site of the Ionic city of Miletus. The buildings which are being cleared cover each stage of the city's development; that is, through classical Greek to the Roman era, and from that to the later Turkish epoch. Miletus was one of the collection of rich Ionic cities founded by Greeks in Asia Minor. There were twelve chief cities in the colony, but though they were all Greek in origin they had no cohesion, and this lack of union brought about their eventual downfall. The modern ruins of Miletus are known to the Turks as Palatia. The excavations have shown that the belief that Miletus stood on the edge of the sea was erroneous, as a well-preserved canal which connected the city with the harbor has been found.

completed the college course, he says, but 235 have gone through the normal department. "Our graduates are acceptable to both white and black, wherever they may be at work," he says. "Paine College is under the control of the South. Its pupils learn to know the friendship of the South through its teachings."

When the American College for Girls at Constantinople is better equipped with buildings, its faculty contemplate an affiliation with women's colleges in America. for advanced study in art and history. These peculiar facilities form one of the reasons why this institution should develop into a great seat of learning for Eastern women. American philanthropy and love of education has expressed itself in two excellent and well-equipped colleges for men in Turkey, Robert College and Beirut College, while this most meagerly supported college offers the only means of higher, or even high secondary, education for girls in this country. A realizing sense of the great need and the great opportunity would, think, result in an adequate foundation for Oriental women.

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The youngest professor in the Eastern states is said to be William T. Foster, professor of English at Bowdoin College. He supported himself from a very small child, educated himself, and at the age of 17 had saved enough money to start to college, when he found that he could not enter because he had never studied Latin. He was told he must have two months of Latin, and it was just two months till the time he had planned to enter Harvard. He was not dismayed. He sought assistance, devoted the two months to overcoming the obstacle-and in September successfully passed his examination and entered college.

The University of Chicago is not to share in the benefits of Andrew Carne

gie's $10,000,000 pension fund for superannuated college professors. In the first annual report of the Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of teaching, there appears a note written to the trustees by the late President Harper, in which he took the position that his institution was not strictly denominational, and was therefore, eligible to a share of the pension fund. The foundation trustees have decided otherwise. Mr. Carnegie's rigid exclusion of denominational institutions from the benefit of his pension system is having the effect, according to the trustees of the foundation, of shaking loose the sectarian hold on considerable number of colleges throughout the country.

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Over a period of five years the municipality of Tokio will spend $2,500,000 to increase and repair the primary schools of that city. On May 31st last, the children of school age numbered 165,080. Those attending school numbered 87,970 in the primary schools and 33,497 in the secondary schools, there are 112 schools established by the municipality, in which the pupils number 93,087.

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The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded by the Norwegian Parliament to President Roosevelt. In speech the President of the Parliament, Gunnar Knudsen, said what had especially attracted the attention of the world was President Roosevelt's efforts to end the war between Russia and Japan. The amount of the Nobel Peace Prize will be given to trustees to be used as a fund to be expended for the purpose of bringing together at Washington representatives of capital and labor to discuss industrial problems with a view to promoting a better understanding between employers and employees. The committee of six in charge of the fund will be called "The Industrial Peace Committee."

Physicians and psychologists tell us that in the course of each seven years the human constitution undergoes a complete change. That which is true. of human beings may approximately and in some instances be true of institutions. The last seven years of Wellesley's life have witnessed changes, gradual, to be sure, yet so fundamental that the college may be said to have made a definite cycle of progress.

It was seven years ago this autumn that Miss Caroline Hazard of Peace Dale, R. I., was inaugurated president of Wellesley College. After close attention to administrative duties during the intervening time, President Hazard is this year taking a needed rest.

The essential analysis of change is not easy to make, for the processes of transition are carried on by unseen forces. Growth has come to Wellesley from in outward, as well as from exterior circumstances. The most marked expressions of Wellesley's evolution, however, are capable of being outlined in brief.

In President Hazard's first report, given to the trustees in the winter of 1899, reference is made to the importance which the Houghton Memorial Chapel-dedicated in June of that year -had already attained as the daily gathering place of the students. Year by year the tranquilizing and uplifting influence of this beautiful chapel has been felt. Constant efforts have been made, and successfully, to enrich the chapel services. Before the end of Miss Hazard's first year as president, a vested choir was organized. The personnel of this choir changes frequently, of necessity, but the organization has been continuously maintained. The choir has sung at both morning prayers and the Sunday services, and, since 1901, a series of vesper services with special music, has been given. In 1903 the establishment of a choir fund made pos

sible the elaboration of the choral work, especially at Christmas and Easter. From the simple plan of choral singing has grown the usage of combining, closely, the musical portions of the service with the devotional, so that each vesper service has a definite unity of thought.

President Hazard, soon after her inauguration to office, deeming it necessary to have a division of administrative duties somewhat different from that already existing, requested of the trustees the appointment of a dean who should take the more strictly academic side of the work, leaving the president free for the general supervision of affairs and the external relations of the college. After a time readjustment, administrative responsibilities were newly divided, and Miss Ellen F. Pendleton, then secretary of the college, was appointed to the deanship. In the absence of President Hazard this year, Dean Pendleton is acting as administrative head of the college.

In the autumn of 1900 a change was instituted in college living arrangements, giving to the faculty the option of nonresidence. Residence had hitherto been accounted a part of the salary. This arrangement, after careful consideration, was reorganized by increasing the salaries of all annually appointed members of the faculty and giving them the choice of remaining in college buildings and paying that sum in return for residence or making outside arrangements. Many members of the faculty established homes for themselves in the village; and the freedom which this plan created has resulted in better, broader social relations between college and village.

Wellesley had for some years been struggling under a pressure of debt. Early in 1900, however, events served to open what seems a pathway to future financial prosperity. The offer came