dred students dressed in colonial erected, each at an expense of $200,costumes. The Columbia Deutsche 000. Both buildings have been so Verein will take part in the carnival planned as to permit of future enlargeparade the following Saturday. ment. The Doe Library is to be completed. Lands are to be purchased which will give the university control of the Strawberry Creek watershed, thus enabling it to develop an independent water supply. Money was also appropriated for some minor items of construction and equipment, such as a tunnel connecting the power plant with the other buildings, and a new gate at one of the entrances to the grounds. North Hall has been moved to a new location during the summer. Cornell has also arranged a program for the Hudson-Fulton celebration. Addresses will be delivered on the various phases of the work of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton, by Professor George L. Burr, of medieval history, Professor Ralph Catterall, of modern European history, Professor Hull, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, and Professor Albert W. Smith, dean of the faculty of mechanical engineering. An hibition of maps will open on September 29. NEW BUILDINGS ex Two new dormitories are nearing completion at the university of Pennsylvania. A new library building, to be called the John Hay Library, is in process of erection at Brown. It is named after Brown's most famous alumnus. A separate building for the School of Law is being erected at Columbia University. It is to be named Kent Hall, in honor of Chancellor Kent, who was the first professor of law at Columbia. Howard University, Washington, D. C., is building this year a $50,000 library, the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, and, also constructing a $90,ooo science hall, a special appropriation by the United States Government. The Regents of the University of California made extensive plans for the improvement of buildings and grounds last April. An Agricultural An Agricultural Hall and a Chemistry Hall are to be ADMINISTRATION AND A new system of admitting students is to be inaugurated at Columbia this fall. A single Committee on Undergraduate Admissions headed by Dr. Adam Leroy Jones will replace the separate committees on admissions of Columbia College, Barnard College, and the Schools of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry. In passing upon the qualifications of applicants, this committee will consider, in addition to the usual entrance examinations, the work done by the student in the preparatory school. It is expected that this information will be of service particularly in the case of doubtful candidates. At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of Gettysburg College a communication by the president of the institution was presented calling for a committee of investigation. Action was taken as follows: "RESOLVED, That in compliance with the request of the president of the college, a committee of five (5) be appointed by the chair to consider the sit uation growing out of the alleged widespread dissatisfaction with the present administration of the college, and other conditions connected with the college, and report at an adjourned meeting of the board, to be called by the officers of the Board of Trustees, at as early a date as can well be arranged for." As this committee the following were appointed: William M. Dunbar, D.D., Henry H. Weber, D.D., Charles F. Stifel, William L. Glatfelter, and Frank E. Colvin, Esq. At its meeting held April 8, 1909, the board of trustees of Princeton University adopted the following resolution: "RESOLVED, That Mr. Andrew C. Imbrie of this board be constituted financial secretary of the board, and that he be authorized to coöperate with the president of the university in the oversight of all its business interests, to attend all meetings of the committee on finance, the committee on grounds and buildings, and the committee on library and apparatus, and perform such duties as those committees or their chairmen may direct, to the end that the various business departments of the university may be as much as possible coördinated and that system and economy may be furthered in their administration." The sentiment of the trustees was that it would be of great advantage to the university if a member of the board could be almost constantly in Princeton, in order that the business administration of the university might be more closely supervised. Mr. Imbrie has established his home at Princeton, and will visit New York City a few days each week to oversee his business. APPROPRIATIONS AND Union College has recently received $100,000 from the General Education Board and $100,000 from general subscriptions. The ordinance providing for $550,ooo of bonds for Cincinnati University was passed under suspension of rules by the Cincinnati city council, August 9, 1909. Andrew Carnegie has given $30,000 to the Illinois Wesleyan University for a new science building, Wesleyan having raised an endowment fund of $60,000. Hiram College completed on December 31, 1908, a campaign for $100,000 additional endowment. As a result there has been pledged to date $107,731, and of this but $55 remain unpaid. During the past year Middlebury College received the following gifts: For the endowment fund, $60,000; for a new building, $72,028.50; for general purposes, $8,417. A total of $140,445.50. McMinnville College has reduced its long-standing debt of $34,653 to $17,958; besides expending $11,000 on a new building and steam heating plant. An attempt is being made to raise an additional $70,000. Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn., has completed the raising of an endowment and building fund of $450.000. Of this, $150,000 will be expended on new buildings, and $300,000 will be devoted to productive endowment. Thomas Shevlin, a wealthy lumberman, has given $60,000 to the University of Minnesota. Of this sum $10,ooo will be used to enlarge Alice Shevlin Hall, a gift from the same source. The other $50,000 will support five scholarships. From the commencement season of 1908 to that of 1909 there has come to Olivet College $20,000 in the form of a banking fund for aid of students, which sum has been added to the endowment of the college. A like amount was also received for other purposes. Wabash College has recently received an additional endowment of $210,000, largely through the personal efforts of President Macintosh. $50,000 of this sum was received from Mr. Carnegie and $50,000 from The General Education Board. The remainder was contributed by alumni and friends of the institution. Under the will of Cornelius C. Cuyler, the banker who was fatally injured in an automobile accident on July 30 near Biarritz, France, and died next day, Princeton will receive $100,000 now and the residuary estate on the death of Mrs. Cuyler, to whom it is left in trust. The bequest of $100,000 is to be known as the Theodore Cuyler Fund, in memory of Mr. Cuyler's father. The State Legislature of Minnesota has made an important appropriation for the State University, including $350,000 for the completion of the campus extension as planned. by Cass Gilbert, the New York architect, and an additional appropriation of $2,000,000 for the general uses of the university, half of which sum will be employed in the erection of four new buildings. Harvard University has received from the widow of James Augustus Rumrill, class of 1859, $15,000 to establish three scholarships. Two scholarships of $225 each have been founded for students entering as undergraduates from secondary schools in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, or Kentucky. A scholarship of $225 will be offered each year to a properly qualified graduate of a college or university in the The departments States mentioned. open are the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Applied Science, Graduate School of Business Administration, Divinity School, Law School, and Medical School. The rapid growth of Trinity College during the past six or seven years, which has added over eighty-three per cent. to its student population, has involved largely increased expenditures, requiring a substantial increase in the behalf of the new fund was begun last general endowment. The movement in winter and has resulted thus far in which $164,900 is conditioned upon the subscriptions aggregating $356,210, of raising of a minimum of $500,000. The pledges range from $10 to $100,000. $174,000 has already been paid in. During the year $37,500 additional has been received on account of a legacy for a larger amount. The sum of $25,100 has also been pledged on a second half million, which friends of the college hope to secure, and which is much needed, since the institution has outgrown its dormitory accommodations and its library building and yet very sensibly holds that it could not, in the present state of its general funds, afford to accept either new library or dormitory as a gift. THE COLLEGE JOHN MILTON Awarded the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize Milton, thy pardon, if an alien heart Send thee this garland from our distant shore; Accept it not as of a land apart, But of the Newer England, thine the more: Here were the abolished bonds to priest and king; Thy trumpet calls us to the cause of man Now, as when first our fathers heard thee sing, Thy soul was tuned to music, and its song Woke the first echoes in those silent days When Spencer's lute had hushed and Shakespeare's strong Melodious voice had faded into praise. Like a cathedral-organ was the sound That hymned the tide of the Nativity; And like a zithern was the strain that stole Thine was no coward soul, to loll at ease And as a drudge thy spirit stooped to serve, Devoted to the rude unhonored task. England had need of thee: Thou didst not pause; Blindness enthralled thee, still thou didst not swerve; And of the Commonweal thou couldst but ask To serve in darkness Freedom's radiant cause. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be The dark has vision that no day can see And pain has bliss that peace can never find. Returned in pomp to his polluted throne, Nay the high tragedy of Heaven was spread But sweeter than thy music, and more dear Of deathless fame that guerdons thee on high, Lived ever in the great Task-Master's eye. The Powers That Be have decided that the old seal must go, and have called for designs for a new one which is to embody something which is characteristically Cornellian. Not that the present one is not distinctive enough, but the fact has been evident for some time that Ezra Cornell plus his whiskers does not make an especially happy-looking seal. However, the chief points of interest around the university seem to be minus quantities. Our spacious and luxuriously appointed gymnasium, our famous swimming-pool, our ideal dormitory system, our well-regulated commons, and our extensive athletic field appear to be the major features of the university. The Widow -EDWARD EYRE HUNT, enthusiastically casts her vote in favor of a nice, large, blank seal; typifying some of the things that Cornell lacks.-Cornell Widow. HER DESTINATION The uninspired idiot was descanting on the race suicide situation. "Those," he declared with conviction, "who do not marry in this world will be married in the next." "But," interposed the bachelor girl who had once refused him, “in heaven they neither marry nor are given in marriage." "I know it," replied the idiot, seeking a toothpick and withdrawing hastily.-Princeton Tiger. |