University reporter; (Athens) 18??-current, December 20, 1889, Image 35

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University Reporter. 33 COLLEGE NOTES, Culled from many sources of German students it is said that one third die from confinement and overwork at college; another third from the effects of vices contracte i while at college, and the rest gov ern Germany. Over $40,000 has been donated to Johns Hopkins University during the last six months. Amherst college has two negroes on her foot ball eleven. The Review, published at Oxford, is the only college paper publish ed in England. Yale has 380 members of the Freshman class. The Princeton Glee Club will spend the Christmas holidays in Flor ida. The students of the Universities of California and Pennsylvania are not allowed to use tobacco in any form. Ohio has more colleges than any other state. She has thirty-four. Pennsylvania comes next with twenty-six. The University of Michigan has more students enrolled than any other college in the United States Madison University is now known as Colgate University, after two of its great benefactors, James and Samuel Colgate, of New York. Cornell has 1,300 students, 521 of which take part in the military feature. The Cornell Sun issues a daily and Sunday edition. The city authorities of Madison, Wisconsin, have taken it on their hands to endeavor to break up hazing at the Uni versity of Wisconsin. Amherst believes that small colleges do the best work, and propo ses to limit her attendance to 300 students. A number of colleges are doing away with the marking system. The University of Michigan is the latest institution to fall in line. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT. Whereas, In the inscrutable wisdom of Almighty God, death, sud den and sad, has called awa from the circle of life which he so honored and adorned, Hon. K. L. Boone, the beloved father of our esteemed classmate. Mr. J. C. Boone, and Whereas, That death has caused the latter to change the plans which he had marked out for his future, and to sever the sacred ties which bound him with us in the common pleasures and common am bitions of the law class of '90. Be it resolved, First, That while we realizs that words are at best but empty and almost meaningless expressions of thought in a bereave ment such as this, yet we know that in sympathy lies the sole human solace for sorrow, and we hasten to take this means of expressing our