New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-01

sci to collect the shells he noticed curious looking stone
q specimen Of Egyptian porphyry, polished on two sides
and beveed for mosaic pavement, as used py inc
Romans. The Roman cement still adheres on one SIDE
The Southern journals tell O story OF GER
tain Col w. who before the war; met at yieksburg an
other hot-booded southerner with whom he quarrcled
challenge was passed and accepted and meeting ap,
pointed at sunrise the morning. During the night
S hs ss q he %
and started landing On nearing the boat be saw
Ing he Was on the ground the next morning with his
seconds. and published his enemy as an "abseOndins
scoundrel"
The first general row between the Freshmen
and sophomores of Yale College took place at Hamilton
Park, New-Haven, on Saturday last "A number Of tho
students had gone out there TO witness game Of base
ball between the sophomores and Seniors there being In
After the game had been concluded the ocasses
formed In battle array The "sophs /" marking time by
90 sophs r. They at last together and there was
general row. Some were knocked down, clothes torn,
h ais manner The freshmen were driven to the
gate when they losing hats coats and other articles
Of clothing. .T rs l.lg.
The Rev. DR.. Walker, ex-President of Harvard
University has made report to the overseers as to the
actual working Of the College Sunday law. He says:
taking the last College year. the Committee ind that
the whole number Of Undergraduate was b " these
26 passed their Sundays at home or with their frenas
OF the 26a who renamed at Cambridge l3e worship IN the
The IN 5 SoSs @
prOporton Of them 1851 attended the Orthodox Congrega-
tionaI Church aud the Episcopal Church In Old Cam
bridge46 the former and 40 the latter The attendance
at the other Old Cambridge was az follows:
Baptist, IL; Unitarian 7; Methodist, Catholic, In
Cambridgeport: Methodist 4; Universalist 81; Leest
Unitarian, q Baptist, /; Pr0spectst.. In Boston
Swedenborgan, s; Episcopal Il; jewish Synagogue. l.
The College provided seats for the students IN four
churches immediate vicinity for which the oloY
ing sums paid To the Episcopal Church. si99 20;
Orthodox Congregational Society, 1925 Baptist Society,
sl20; Methodist Society, s32-the whole amounting 10
s1,O76 90.
The Boston Daily Advertiser prints partial
returns from seventyve coegesn this country OF the
number Of degrees conferred this year, These nsttu
tons have graduated O49 students bachelors OF art
and conferred other degrees In science philosophy
law and other departments. The graduates from the
medical departments OF these colleges number 100,
which u.s. OF course fraction Of those who have
become doctors In medicine this year. Three hundred
and forty returned to their respective colleges
TO take the second degree In arts. OF the graou
ates In regular course. reported, 1Hy.sx were
women, but only Vassar College or the lnsutu-
lions exclusively for females reported Only 10 OF the
colleges reported having conferred no honorary
degrees and from others there was no report on TINS
point Tho remaining IS have made IS doctors OF dyi-
ity and doctors OF law. and have conferred l other
honorary degrees The leading college In this regard
was Union College. which made doctors OF laws doc,
tors OF divinity. and honorary bachelors OF artists
honorary degrees In ALL But Princeton followed closely
With doctors OF laws doctors OF divinity honorary
masters Of arts, and doctors OF philosophy-ls