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  material, w i l l be given a Moore's Non-Leakable Fountain Pen—you see we
  want more news, much, much more news.—Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega.

       No less than 3,218 women have matriculated at the various German uni-
  versities this winter, as against 2,958 last year and the 1,850 of three years
  ago. The figures show that f o r the present the German university woman
  is chiefly instigated by a desire to fit herself f o r high teaching positions or
  for the medical profession.

      I t is interesting to note that the largest increases of women students are
  in Munich, Heidelberg, and Marburg, that is, chiefly in South Germany.
 —Banta's Greek Exchange.

      A T leads in the number of Rhodes scholars; i t has had 23.
     A T , like * T A, has adopted a recognition p i n , a very small replica of
 its badge.

      The sophomore society 6 N E now has a quarterly magazine, published in
 New York.—Scroll of Phi Delta Theta.

      Forestry has been added to the curriculum at Syracuse.
     The summer school w i l l be reorganized at Dartmouth.
      Michigan is to have a new auditorium costing $260,000.
     The new Yale stadium w i l l have a seating capacity of 70,000.
     D u r i n g the past year Corntll spent a million dollars on new buildings.
     Football w i l l be compulsory at the University of Wisconsin for all Fresh-
 men.

     Honorary degrees have never been given at the University o f Y i r g i n i a .
    Brown and Miami w i l l inaugurate the semester system beginning with
 September.
     The Pulitzer School o f Journalism at Columbia w i l l not be open to women.
     Boston Tech. received a g i f t of $2,500,000. The donor is known only to
 the president o f that institution.
     I n a recent effort to raise a half million dollars, DePauw University se-
cured the amount and f i f t y thousand in addition.
     The University of Washington is considering the acquisition of an ad-
ditional hundred acres o f ground f o r new buildings and athletic facilities.
    Chicago maintains a bureau of recommendation f o r teachers i n schools,
colleges and universities. The work is conducted by a paid secretary.
    The University of California by the total enrollment figures* is now the
second largest institution of its kind in the United States, having 7,263 students.
This number is exceeded by but one University, Columbia.—The New York
Times.

    Eastern States are well represented at the University of Wisconsin, New
York having thirty-eight students enrolled, Pennsylvania nineteen, and Ohio
fifty-three. Every state in the Union except Delaware, Mississippi, W y o m i n g ,
and Nevada has one or more students this year, a total of 1,085 students com-
ing f r o m states other than Wisconsin, out of a total o f 4,014.—Delta Kappa
Epsilon Quarterly.

    Even the colored population now has a special Greek letter fraternity, as
witness the ensuing:

    "Thirty-nine negro students are at present enrolled in the university, it
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