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Class feeling has become quite marked lately at De Pauw University, Indiana. It began by the seniors adopting high hats as the insignia of their class.-These were promptly stolen by the sophomores, who had their pictures taken in them. The other evening, during the progress of a sophomore performance, a number of freshmen entered the hall with large paper sacks inflated and labeled "sophomore wind." After waiting to hear three or four speeches they started to leave the hall. Dr. Ridpath who was presiding endeavored to stop them by locking the doors, but the freshmen burst them open...
...Pauw University in Greencastle, Ind., is to have eight more buildings-a law college, a medical college, a theological college, an observatory, two dormitories, and other structures, to be erected without delay...
Friends of Asbury University, Indiana, were able to raise only $120,000 under Mr. W. C. De Pauw's agreement to give $300,000 if they would raise $150,000, and so Mr. De Pauw agreed to give in the same proportion, or $2 for each $1 raised. Thus the college is to have a fund of $360,000, with which the new buildings are to be erected. Mr. De Pauw promises also to carry out the other provisions of his original intention, to bequeath 45 per cent, of his estate to the university, which in the future...