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Eleven years ago Cornell University, then for the first time in fair working order in all its departments, had 609 students. During the past year it had but 361, and the Alumni association attributes the decline to the admission of women on the same basis as men. There are gument is that the men will not attend where the system of co-education is in vogue. When men alone were admitted two came where one comes now, while the women do not come in sufficient numbers to make up for this loss, and it looks as if the doors...
...which promises to be very successful, as the men have been in constant practice for several months and have accomplished some excellent work. There will also be a concert given by the college orchestra and glee club, and the junior dramatic entertainment given with such success a few weeks ago will be repeated...
...boat, is ill, but it is hoped that he will be in condition for the race. We hear that New York sporting men are giving 3 to 2 on Harvard, which is probably due to the comparison made between the two crews in the New York Herald a fortnight ago. The crew leave for New London next Thursday morning, and expect to witness the Harvard-Columbia race from their launch...
This afternoon the sophomores give the fence to the freshmen, and silly as the custom may at first seem, it is, nevertheless, a most interesting one. The sophomore orator in a supposed humorous speech, gives away that for which "Providence has shaped our ends," as one said not long ago, and the freshman orator then accepts in behalf of his class, and at once proceeds to give as good as he receives if he is able...
...College of Notre Dame challenges the claim of Michigan University to the honor of having first produced a Latin play in America. The former institution presented "The Captives" of Plautus three years ago...