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The will of Henry Blount, an eccentric
miser of Herfords!Iire, England, leaving
$465,OOO to Yale university, was admit
ted to probate at London, although rela-
tives expected to show that his mind was
unbalanced. Yale will get the money.
Freshmen and sophomores from the
University of Minnesota engaged in
lively battle at a dancing academy in
Minneapolis and it took a squad of police
and number of men armed with buckets
of water to subdue them. The sophie
mores attempted to cut the hair of the
freshmen boys who attended class party.
The Virginia high school debating team
claims the Minnesota State championship
for 1908, on the grounds of having met
and defeated the strongest teams in the
debating league, including the teams of
st. Paul and Minneapolis, and also on the
recent challenge issued to meet any team
in the league or out of the league Gold
medals are being struck for the members
of the team.
D. H. Burnham of Chicago and Wal
ter Cook of New York, the two distin-
guished architects. who with w. NJ Ken
yon of Minneapolis, have been chosen as
judges to pass upon the merits of the
plans submitted in the open competition
for improving and identifying the greater
campus of the University of Minnesota,
have begun their examination of the TWEEN
ty plans submitted by architects
Negotiations are under way in st. Paul
20 secure the Minnesota college, a Scand-
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Minneapolis. The college was established
a few years ago. Since that time the col
lege has prospered and grown so that
it needs more room. 1t has been unable
to secure property in the neighborhood of
its present location, and the authorities
of the institution are now considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of removing il to st. Paul.
A committee of ST. Paul business men
have the matter of aiding the college in
hand
President Swain of Swarthmore Col
lege has announced that the board Of
managers will be asked by the faculty to
authorize the abandonment of intercollegi-
ate athletic contests for at least one year,
and that the football and basketball games
scheduled for next year be Cancelled. But
contests in the milder form, such as ten
mis- and lacrosse, may be continued. The
decision is based on complaints of mem
bers of the faculty and of the alumni
that ''the desire to win has come to over
shadow the legitimate purpose of athletics
to such an extent as to form a serious
menace TO the primary purpose of college
life" The Athletic Advisory Committee
is willing that the experiment be tried,
but believes that it will not be found to
be in the best interests of Swarthmore.
President Dabney of the University of
Cincinnati has asked for the resignation
of Prof Ii. H. Bawden of the department
of philosophy because of the private views
held b. the latter on the question Of mar
riage. 1t was said that the request was
inspired by the disclosures made by Mrs.
Bawden concerning the effect of her hus-
bands peculiar views on their home life.
He holds that comradeshp should be the
only tie between man and wife Oh the
spiritual plane, and that where this does
not exist separation should be made as
simple as possible,
Manchester the Presbyterian college
at st. Paul. has been made the Minnesota
beneficiary of the Rockefeller educational
fund, and is to receive a gift of $4,000.
The college is TO raise an endowment of
$4,000 additional, most of which is al
ready pledged
Iowa won sixth place in the field meet
for the blind The National Athletic AS
ISOLATION comprises colleges for the blind
located in California, Eastern and West
ern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Missouri,
New York, South Dakota, Wisconsin.
Illinois, Iowa, Kansas. Kentucky. Mon
tana, Ohio, Washington and Massachu-
sets.
The latest published report Of United
States Commissioner Of Education Brown
covering the year 1906 names seventeen
universities and colleges having above
1000 male undergraduates. They are
Harvard 2,442; Cornell 2440 Philadel-
phia Central High School, $3.50; Wiscon-
sin, 2.31S; Yale, 2,207; Michigan. 1895,
Illinois, 1,751; Minnesota, 1,S'4; Ohio.
1-A5; California, 1.504: Chicago, 1,414
Princeton, 1.432; Boston Tech, l,4l4;
Purdue, 1853 Pennsylvania, 1,342; Co
lumbia, 1888; Missouri, 1,025. The four
next in order are Stanford, Dartmouth,
Syracuse and Iowa. There are ia col
Ieges having over 200 male students and
sos having less than 200