Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Smith College has 400 freshmen this year. Brown has a smaller freshman class than last year. University of Illinois professors have organized a golf club. Williams began its 106th year with at freshman class of 110. Residence in college halls is now required at Bryn Mavr. Four new dormitories are to be erected for the University of Pennsylvania. There are 240 women at the Umversity of Illinois this year, more than ever before. Two Cornell students have been given appointments in the Chinese customs service. Yassar has 239 new students, and toe number who dropped out is smaller than usual. Twenty changes have been made in toe faculty of the Massachusetts Institute «f Technology. Prof. Rush Pbees of Newton has accepted the presidency of the University as Rochester. • The growth la recorded me toe books in tbe Cornell library daring seven years is 232 per cent. Nature study at the zoological gardens Is to be a part of the course of instruction in Philadelphia public schools. Reports from the University of lOnne sot a indicate that its total asm her of students will this year reach, or even pass, 3,000. The alumni of Tofts College have obtained a voice in the government of the college in the form of a board as overseers.

Two hundred and fifty-nine University of Michigan men were to servku, either at the front or in camp, during toe recent Spanish war. The Presbyterians of Tennessee are striving to establish a college at WinpMi to be known as the Cumberland Prefiy terian University. Franklin Remington, *B7. of Chicago is one of the new members of tbe executive committee of the Athletic amo fia tion of Harvard graduates. There are 426 colleges la America, with property estimated at Girard, with $15,000,000. and leUad Stanford, Jr., with are tbe richest The Princeton flag was at tbe masthead of the Peary relief ship, along with the Stars and Stripes, and was carried farther north than any fimerirsn flag since 1871. ' Athletes on the University of Michigan football team will likely be taken to the Paris exposition. Trainer Itoptukk has broached toe idea, and it is papnlsr The opening of toe school year has been attended by few reports of baring, tot barbarous method of wukxmiag fee tomes 15,53 w °*