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The following appeared in the Charlotte Observer a few weeks past. It is from the pen of Mr. Howard A. Banks fellow in Eng lish at the University, '91-' 92. WHAT THE CAROLINA GOVER NORS SAID TO , EACH OTHER. 'Twas a meeting of the Governors Of every Southern State, To get good "foreign elements" To southward emigrate. All spoke of the advantages Of which their States could brag, Which showed that not a single one In Progress' rear did lag. "Virginia towns within a day," Virginia's Gov'nor spoke, "Spring up!" and then he jerked His thumb toward Roanoke. Then Jones of Alabama said, With a Birmingham-ward glance, "The world's supply of coal to ours Is not a circumstance !" "In Arkansaw" the Governor With a fish's spine quoth he: "Molasses branches flow along Beneath the Pancake tree." Then said the Northern Governor Of the Southern Cracker State: "That Georgia's bound to take the lead Is Destiny and Fate !" So said they all. Then silently And solemnly did glance Where the two Carolinians Had formed an Al li-ance. "Why take ye not the floor?" they cried, "And what can be the thing That to the one so earnestly The other's whispering ?" Then 'Lias Carr his mustache stroked, And said: "Kind sirs, methinks My interrogatory was 'How long it is 'tween drinks.' " But Tilman winked his open eye, And said: , "It's quite contrary For me to drink at all but from An S. C. dispensary." The University possesses one of the best preparatory medical schools in the South. The high stand that young men, who have been prepared here, have taken at the University of Va., and northern medical colleges is conclusive proof of the thorough ness and accuracy of the prepara tion received. Mr. Morris, one of Dr. - Whitehead's students ill '91, has just graduated from the Uni versity of Va., with high honors. While there he was assistant De monstrator of Anatomy. Mr. McKenzie, another student of medicine here in '91, has just graduated from the Jefferson Med ical College of Philadelphia, and won the medal offered by that in stitution for the best anatomical preparation. Mr. Duiguid, another student here in '91, has just graduated from the Univer sity of Maryland, with very high honors. We doubt if there is a medical school in the South that is as thorough as far as it goes as the one connected with the lUni-versity. EXCHANGES. A San Francisco , firm has a contract to construct a monster horn for Iceland Stanford, Jr., University made of galvanized iron, 50 feet long and 10 feet in diameter. The noisemaker will have two valves,, a 32-horse power boiler, and will cost $500' when built. There are 200 stu dents pledged to devote $2.50! each toward the building fund re quired to construct that giant horn. Last Friday, after a formal interchange of challenges, the Harvard and Pennsylvania foot ball representatives signed an agreement to play two games of foot-ball, one in Cambridge, on Thanksgiving day of this year, and another in Philadelphia on Thanksgiving day of 1894. The rules to govern the game are practically the same as those adopted by Harvard to govern her athletics after 1893. Full details will appear next week, with comments by the represen tatives of both colleges. Univer sity (of Pa.) Courier. Professor Edward B. Condon of Dartmouth has offered a prize of $60 to be given annually to that student who, being a mem ber of the athletic teams, shall maintain .the highest class stand ing throughout the year. The University of Paris, with 9,215 students, is the largest in the world. The Yale nine made $900 on their spring trip, against a loss of $200. last year. Leland Stanford Jr., Univer sity is the only American College allowing free tuition in every department. The Latin Department of Har vard is to superintend a stage representation of the "Phormio" of Terence by the students in the spring of '94. The University of Michigan students in the mechanical laboratory have made a full set of machines to be exhibited at the World's Fair. The University of Chicago gymnasium has the largest indoor running track in the country. Connecticut has more college students, in proportion to the population, than any other state. The pride of the Vassar girls is that none of their graduates has ever been divorced. There is talk of founding a Naval Academy on the lake front at Chicago. The Colorado Legislature has endowed the State University with a perpetual tax of one cent on the $100 assessed valuation of the State. The increase of students at Vas sar this year is so great that the buildings will not accommodate all, so the Windsor Hotel has been leased until a new structure can be erected. The Wisconsin Senate has voted a large sum of money for purchasing additional'grounds for the use of the state'university. At Depauw University, a can didate for any athletic team, using improper language, or who conducts himself in an unbecom ing manner, or who plays under an assumed name, forfeits mem bership on the team. The Cornell Daily Sun says : "If the winner of the Harvard Yale boat race next summer re fuses to row Cornell, Cornell will claim the championship of Amer ica, and endeavor to arrange an international match with the Oxford-Cambridge race." An oratorical contest is to be held in Chicago, on June 30th, at which seventy-five cqlleges wil be represented. There are two Christian En deavor societies in the Rangoon College Baptist Church, m Ran goon, Burma; one organized in the Burmese language and the other in the Karan. This year, owing to the popu larity of debating, 150 Yale soph omores have elected elocution. Last year it was elected by less than 50. The new telescope for the Chi cago University will not be ready for use till the fall of 1895. The lens will be forty-five inches in diameter or eleven inches larger than that in the great Lick Ob servatory. The seaside laboratory for Le- land Stanford, Jr., University, has been located at Pacific Grove, two miles west of Monterey, Cal. It is the first laboratory of its kind on the Pacific coast, and one of the four in the U. S. Mr. C. Alfonso Smith, of Greensboro, now a student of Johns Hopkins, read a paper, a few weeks ago before the Johns Hopkins Philological Association of which Gildersleeve is president. Gildersleeve not only commended the paper, but offered to publish it in the American Journal of Philology. Twenty-five graduates and former students of Johns Hop kins have accepted positions on the faculty of the University of Chicago. The Universary of Cornell and Pennsylvania have formed a dual athletic league, adopting a con stitution modeled after that of the Inter-Collegiate Association. The membership of Universi versity of Pennsylvania Athletic Association is 227 under-gradu-ates and 290 graduates. Cornell's foot-ball expenses for the season of 1893 were $5,977. 37, and they begin next season with $30 in the treasury. , The Michigan Legislature has just passed a bill to levy a State tax of one-sixth of a mill for the support of the University of Michigan. The University of Chicago has made examinations optional with the instructors. The University of Vermont re quires that its students shall at tain the rank of 85 per cent, in daily or term work to be exempt rom examinations. The annual report of the Yale Foot-ball Association has been made public. It shows the total receipts to have been $3 1,300. 71 and the total expenditure $14, 550.82.' The balance in the treasury is the largest ever exhib ited by a college athletic associa tion at the end of a playing season. There are fifteen colleges in the United States claiming an attend ance of over 1,000. University of Michigan is first with an at tendance in the neighborhood of 3,000. The other colleges come in about the following order: Har vard, Oberlin, Columbia, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Lake Forest, Cornell, University of City of New York, Ohio Wesley an, University of Minnesota, and Depauw University. The surviving members of the class of '42 'Yale have raised a $2,000 fund, the income of which is designed for prizes to en courage students in extemporane ous speaking. Last year the co-operative soci ety of Harvard- did a business of about $95,000. The object of this is to save to students money on books, etc. The number of volumes in the college libraries of the United States, has increased 500,000 during the past year.
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