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Several changes will be made next year in the Department of French, as is shown by the recent pamphlet of courses. Undoubtedly the most important of these is the founding of a professorship in Comparative Literature, since it involves a rearrangement of several courses. Professor A. R. Marsh will be the lecturer in this course for the year 1900-01; and the aim will be to give students a clear and comprehensive idea of the development of European literature, from the Middle Ages to the middle of the nineteenth century. With a view to securing better system in the arrangement...
Cornell will soon have a boat club similar to the Newell or the Weld if the present plans are carried out successfully. The university formerly had clubs of this sort before the organization of the Cornell Navy, and the men most interested in Cornell rowing are behind this recent movement. The two Harvard clubs have been consulted and the plan is meeting with great enthusiasm...
...Census taking differs from registration much as the counting of stock differs from bookkeeping. The deficiency of the United States in registration is very noticeable, and has led to efforts to make the census take the place of registration, an attempt which has, however, proved unsatisfactory. The census of recent years has been overburdened with matters of secondary importance, but the new law is an improvement in this respect...
...recent article in the Princeton Alumni Weekly gives some interesting statistics in regard to the normal age and average expenses of Princeton undergraduates...
...recent performances of Foote and Richardson of Harvard indicate that they will finish first and second respectively in the two-mile run. Teel or Waldron of Yale may land third place from Blakemore of Harvard. Were it not for complications with the college authorities, which have rendered Strong and Chittenden unavailable, Yale's chances in this event would be much brighter...