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...hundred and sixteen College graduates now in attendance at the Columbia L. w School, forty-eight graduated at Yale, thirty-seven at Columbia, thirty-one at the College of the City of New York, seventeen at Princeton, and thirteen at Harvard. Of the one hundred and twelve College graduates at the Harvard Law School, sixty-nine graduated at Harvard...
...members of the College has been everywhere apparent. There are some respects, however, in which we are still behindhand, and occurrences occasionally take place which border upon the puerile amusements generally confined to the smaller colleges. Society initiations of a rough character originated among the boys of sixteen or seventeen who were in college when the societies were founded. Now, however, students are much older, and as the Faculty have abolished boyish regulations, we can see no reason why students should not abolish boyish customs. The performances, which some consider so courageous or witty, of blowing up a drain...
...Italy has thrown its seventeen universities open to women. Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Holland have taken like action. The Sarbonae of France admit women, as do also the highest schools of medicine and surgery in Russia...
...class in heavy gymnastics, numbering seventy-eight members, is divided into four sections according to strength. Twenty-eight marks are required to enter the first division, twenty-two the second, seventeen the third, and twelve the fourth. The basis for assigning marks is as follows: "The applicant places himself between the parallel bars, resting upon his hands with arms straight. He then lowers himself by bending the arms until they are in a flexed condition, then rises again. One mark is allowed each time he rises. The flexors of the arms and some of the chest-muscles are tested...
...class of seventeen graduated from the Medical College on Wednesday last...