Peterson, '62, of Chicago, is completed. It is a home for the retired members of the faculty.

The Germanic Museum of Harvard is to have a new building to house its valuable and unique collection.

The University of Nebraska College of Medicine, at Omaha, is to be greatly enlarged. A campus four city blocks in size has been secured, and modern and modern buildings of a uniform type are to be built.

Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, is about to build a new gymnasium. In height it will be three stories, in size 112x194 feet, and in cost $50,000.

The University of Illinois is completing a new building for the school of

ceramics.

Stanford University is to have a students' club-house to be known as "Stanford Union." Much of the money was subscribed by the students, those giving a certain amount being designated as life members.

Ground has been broken for the new $75,000 woman's building at Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.

Coker College for Women, Hartsville, South Carolina, dedicated its new auditorium and administration building March 22. It is modern in every respect and is one of the handsomest college buildings in the state.

Andover Theological Seminary is building a $50,000 fire-proof dormitory. It will be ready for occupancy next autumn.

Proctor Academy, Andover, New Hampshire, has just completed a new boys' dormitory, the cost of which was $20,000.

Yale has begun work on the new dormitory to be erected as a memorial to former Dean H. P. Wright. The dormitory will cost $225,000.

Danish College, Grand View, Iowa, has in course of construction a new gymnasium.

Clemson College (South Carolina) is

preparing plans for a model dairy, to cost $20,000.

Wooford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina. will begin the erection of Carlisle Memorial Hall this spring. It is to cost $50,000.

The University of Alabama is nearing completion a beautiful building, called Smith Hall, which is three stories and basement, 60x110 feet, with two wings of two stories and basement, each 40x 100 feet.

Southwestern University at Georgetown, Texas, will erect a building of native stone to cost not less than $225,000.

The State University of Iowa is to have a new hall of physics. It is expected that the building will cost about $215,000, and $85,000 more is to be used in the equipment of the physics department.

The State Normal School at Emporia, Kansas, opened its new gymnasium building last month. It cost $100,000, and is 81x207 feet, three stories and basement. There are lockers, shower baths, and a swimming pool, and the entire building is beautifully finished.

The Phi Delta Theta fraternity members at Purdue University have just moved into the new $38,000 chapter house.

Atlanta Baptist College, Atlanta, Georgia, is building a $40,000 chapel.

Columbia College, Junior, at Milton, Oregon, has let the contracts for an administration building, 67x93 feet of con

crete.

The University of Toronto, Canada, is to receive three handsome new buildings as a memorial to the late Hart A. Massey. They are to be a Y. M. C. A. building, a Students' Union, and a gymnasium.

The Oklahoma Woman's College is constructing an administration building, which will cost $100,000.

Woman's college of Brown University is to have a new dormitory ready for occupancy next autumn. It will contain 100 rooms and will cost $100,000.

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ITH all the criticism that is being hurled at athletics and social diversions, it would seem that a change or some sort of slight modification in the student activities of our higher institutions of learning soon might be expected. It would seem so. For many months the press has been very constant in its criticism, and educators, whenever and wherever they gather, have much to say about the diversions that are too diverting.

After months of study of the foremost universities, Mr. Edwin E. Slosson condemns present collegiate athletics. At the seventh annual convention of the Religious Education Association, which convened in Nashville during the early days of March, Professor George A. Coe of Union Theological Seminary branded intercollegiate athletics, as now conducted, as dishonest. Profesor Coe asks us to consider, link by link, the following chain:

"Expensive training, supplies, transportation; therefore, gate receipts, therefore, a crowd; therefore, spectacular playing; therefore, brilliant players, winning players, if the college fail. Of course, they are distracted from their studies, and what should be play becomes labor-hard, grinding labor. Under these conditions there is inevitable temptation to strain the rules of eligibility and finally to violate them in order to secure players who can win games. Here is the root, also of ungentlemanly playing. In vain do we strive to stop dirty work by formal rules at the very moment when we are forcing players to win at any cost. In vain will you build walls of definition to exclude professionalism when making a business of play is of the essence of the enterprise."

Professor Coe states that culture and

scholarship are undervalued and are low among the students, and that they are subjected to needless moral strain. He concludes thus: "It is to the president that we must look for leadership in restoring the unity of the college. Is it too much to say that this is the supreme administrative problem for the present generation of college presidents?"

Professor Charles Mills Gayley of the University of California, in a book just issued bearing the title, "The Idols of Education," prints this paragraph:

"How many nights a week does the students spend in pursuits nonacademic? How great a portion of his days? What with so-called 'college activities,' by which he must prove his allegiance to the university, and social functions, by which he must recreate his jaded soul, no margin is left for the one and only college activity-which is study. Class meetings, business meetings, committee meetings, editorial meetings, football rallies, baseball rallies, vicarious athletics on the bleachers, garrulous athletics in dining room and parlor and on the porch, rehearsals of the glee club, rehearsals of the mandolin club and of the banjo, rehearsals for dramatics (a word to stand the hair on end), college dances and class banquets, fraternity dances and suppers; a running up and down in college politics, making tickets, pulling wires, adjusting combinations, canvassing the girls for votes, spending hours at sorority houses for votes-talking, thinking rubbish about pseudo-civic honor, rubbish about girls-what margin of leisure is left for the one activity of the college, which is study?"

Dean J. C. Jones of the college of arts and sciences of the University of Missouri voices a statement:

"A great many of the students of the

university are getting but a partial education. They are putting in most of their time in planning and scheming for all sorts of social functions that are not conducive to hard study; things that divert their minds from study. The great majority of the students place social functions before study."

Words of other educators might be quoted, but they would serve only to go over the subject a second time. Some professors are of the opinion that the social activities are of great benefit to the students and so refrain from indulging in criticism. All are agreed that there has been a decided growth in student activities during recent years, and that where formerly there was one diversion to lead young men and women from their studies, now there are many. But, as we remarked in the beginning, is it not reasonable to expect that the rife criticism will bring about a change? It would seem so.

The non-graduate has been made the subject of a special investigation at Yale, that, roughly speaking, a quarter of the students who came to Yale in half a century have not been graduated. There are 23,000 alumni of Yale, and of the number of former students 6,872 did not receive a diploma. The theory that the non-graduate is less prominent in after life than the graduate is rudely dispelled. In some pursuits there are more Yale non-graduates than graduates, and in nearly all the percentage is higher. The percentage of non-graduates in art, architecture and music is three times greater than the percentage of graduates. In education the figures are 10 per cent of the non-graduates and 11 per cent of the graduates, in engineering 6.5 per cent of the non-graduates and 9.7 of the graduates, in journalism 3.5 per cent of the non-graduates and 2.7 of the graduates, in manufacturing 10.7 per cent of the non-graduates and 9.8 of the graduates, in mercantile life 16.8 per cent of non-graduates and 8.3 of graduates, in the ministry 10 per cent of non-graduates and 9 of graduates, in government and public life 2.9 per cent of non-grad

uates and 1.3 of graduates, and in law 10 per cent of non-graduates and 24 of graduates.

College graduates are wanted by the United States War Department for the Philippine constabulary. The Bureau of Insular Affairs needs twenty men on the islands this spring. Unmarried men between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-three who are graduates of reputable colleges are desired. They must possess physical strength and activity and be of offered is $1,100 per year. good character and habits. The salary

A prize of $1,000 has been offered through Professor C. F. Hodge of Clark University for the finding of a wild pigeon's nest.

Once in four years the Perkins Fellowship in Architecture is offered for competition at Columbia University, and the third competition will be held in April and May of this year at the School of Architecture. The winner is required to devote one year to foreign travel and study. The value in 1902 was $800 and it is expected that the same amount will be available this year. The competition succeeding classes, and those eligible is open to the graduates of 1904 and who may be living in the United States at a distance from the city, may compete in the cities in which they reside. Intending competitors should communicate at once with Profesor A. D. F. Hamilin.

Are the young women students brighter or do they study harder than the men? In view of recent events this question has come to the fore. Thirtytwo Cornell students have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the honorary society in which high scholarship is demanded. There were thirteen seniors and twelve juniors and one graduate student. Nineteen of the chosen thirty-two were women and only thirteen men. The supremacy of the co-eds is even greater at the University of Illinois. Twenty-seven students were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and of these twenty were young women. In other universities the honors have

gone to the women, and at recent examinations the majority of "flunks" were

men.

The code of honor among American students is lower than in Germany, ac

cording to Professor Edouard Meyer of the University of Berlin. The professor deplored this situation in an informal talk at a reception given him by members of local chapters of fraternities of Northwestern University. "I believe much of this can be traced to the be traced to the practice of treating among American students gathered in bodies for various purposes," Profesor Meyer said. "The German student does not know what the word 'treat' means. If he wishes anything he purchases it and pays for it. I believe the American student is the loser by not following the same plan."

Student government and the honor system in the conduct of examinations is coming into great favor at the universities and colleges. Where such ideas have been given a fair trial they have proved highly satisfactory. Johns Hopkins University is one of the latest to be petitioned by the students for the adoption of the honor system. The State University of Iowa is to give student government a trial. Western Reserve University recently concluded its examinations under the honor system inaugurated last year. The University of Minnesota is asking for a more perfect honor system.

A unique organization at the Ohio State University is known as the Students' Employment Bureau. It is composed of those university students who are interested in making the most advantageous arrangements for summer employment. Most of the members have found the most profitable employment in canvassing. At the meetings of the bureau members tell of their successes and

failures. Representatives of reputable firms are given hearings at meetings appointed for the purpose.

Fellowships and graduate scholarships are offered by Bryn Mawr in competition to graduates of any university or

college of acknowledged standing. Thirteen resident fellowships and twentyeight graduate scholarships are offered, five of the scholarships being open to 'British and five to German women only. The fellowships are valued at $525, excepting the research fellowship in chemistry, which is of the value of $750. The foreign scholarships are equivalent to free residence, board and tuition for an academic year, $405; the remaining eighteen graduate scholarships are of the value of $200. Students already in residence have the opportunity of obtaining one of the three European travelling fellowships, on which the student may study for a year at some foreign university. Since the college was founded, fifty students have thus been sent from Bryn Mawr to study in Germany, England, France, and of recent years, at the schools of classical studies at Athens and Rome.

Zurcher, a senior in the college of liberal Out of 2,300 students, Miss Blanche arts and sciences, has made the best record of any member of the class of 1910 at the University of Kansas. During four years, in every course she has taken, she has received between 90 and 100 per cent on the scale of 100. She is not what is called a "grind;" she finds time for other things besides her books. Last year she was a member of the junior promenade committee, and held a place on the sophomore social committee in her second school year. She is at present the secretary of the all-senior class. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa. Easy courses have not caused her sucShe chose Latin and Greek for her major studies, and has specialized in the ancient languages.

cess.

President David Starr Jordan of Stanford University, where Rugby is played, has this to say of football and football reform: "At the present juncture the university and college presidents of the United States have the opportunity to throw off once for all the heaviest burden yet borne by higher education in America. This can be done if each institution will decide that no form of foot

ball which allows or legalizes 'interferference' or 'offside play,' shall be played on its campus. From 'interference' results 'mass-play,' 'downs,' hard tackling, and the various forms of 'manhandling,' as well as the dominance of the professional coach. The other details of the game, by which Rugby differs from its American pervert, the scrum, the throwing in, etc., are of little consequence. But no reform of any value is possible until 'manhandling' is eliminated, and the farce of 'football reform' of five years ago should not be repeated."

The total annual registration at Cornell is now more than 5,000; five years ago it was about 4,000; ten years ago it was less than 3,000. Exclusive of the summer session and the winter courses in agriculture, the enrollment for the current year is 4,103, an increase over last year of 215. The largest gains are in agriculture, 113; in arts and sciences, 70; and in law, 37. There are now 253 graduate students. The number of teachers is 617, an increase over last year of 9 per cent. There is an average of one teacher to about every seven students. The faculty at present is larger than the entire undergraduate body a quarter of a century ago. Cornell gives free tuition to nearly 1,600 students. Tuition is free to students in the State College of Agriculture, approximately 900, and to New York students in the Veterinary College, approximately eighty.

The University of Michigan was one of the first leading educational institutions to adopt the co-educational system. In January, 1870, the legislature adopted the resolution allowing women to attend the university. One month later the first woman student enrolled in the literary department. In 1870 and 1871 several women were registered in the different departments. In the year 1893 the women constituted 37 per cent of the attendance in the literary department, and for several years following the proportional attendance of women to the total attendance was between 20 per cent and 22.4 per cent. In 1899 the ratio was 5 to 1,

but the literary department had increased in the women's attendance till the ratio was 44 to 56. The number of women in the medical department was very large in the early '90's, but has decreased rapidly, till today women "medics" are scarce. Much of this is caused by the increase of co-educational medical schools. The total attendance of women in the university today is 735, of which 650 are undergraduate literary students.

nishing an ever widening field for colTeaching in foreign countries is furlege graduates. China leads in the demand, wanting 8 teachers. India calls for 4, Africa 3, Mexico and Japan 2, and Turkey, Persia, Burma, Cuba, Porto Rica, Brazil, and Guatamala, one man each. As fast as the men can be looked up, if found suitable, they will be sent over. The expenses of the journey will be paid. Salaries range from $800 to $2,500 the year. All the sciences, and English, rhetoric, sociology, and engineering are represented in the list. Only men are eligible to the positions. The Young Men's Christian Association, through its central office in New York city has the responsible task of filling these positions, because of its high standing in the large foreign cities, and because of its influence with the student population in all parts of the world.

Chinese students at the University of Pennsylvania for the first time in the history of that institution, and probably of any other in America, recently presented a play written and staged by themselves. The production was entitled "When the East and West Meet," and was witnessed by hundreds of students and their friends. and their friends. American students saw themselves as they were seen by others in the keen dialogue between the Chinese actors, whose speeches were a clever satire on American student life and the attitude of American students toward the Chinese. "Why do you do things upside down?" an American student was made to ask. "Because, I suppose, you do things downside up," the Chinese here replied.