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Columbia College 8 estabUshing several courses of free lecture?. A D. K. E. chapter lias just been establlshed at Vanderbilt University. Rev. Dr. Frederick Vinton, librarían at Princeton from 1873, died on New Year's day. Prof. Lawrenoe, of Dartmoutli, will be the next annual director of the American School In Athens. On Friday evening last the D. K. E. 's had a very delightful house warming. A reception from 8 to 10 o'clock, then dancing. At the Y. M. C. A. conference to be held at Wesleyan University, on Jan. 2420, it is expected that tliere will be over 200 delegates present. A new Eteam launch for Yale College is being built at a cost of $4,500. Somc people wonder what Yale will do with a steam launch. Search for SlcGinty perhaps. The only college n the new State of Montana, is called "The College of Montana," is located at Deer Lodge, has 150 students, andadebtoi $25,000 which it is desirous of Hftlng. The Northwestern University at Evanston, III., together with its four Chicago departments, lias an enrollment of 1,800 students altogether. There are 1,200 of tliem at Evanston. The securing of Mr. Moody by the Students' Chrietiaa Assoeiatlon for three or four days has given a new Ímpetus to the reügious fecllng in this student community. It is to be hoped tliat it will be lasting. A Japanese student has entered the law department who has already practiced in bis own country and who is now a candidate for the Japanese Parliament. He returns in June to " fix his fences." ïhe Belolt Daily Free Press of Jan. 6th, contains an account of the serious illness of Dr. II. R. Clark, medie '00, who wiü be rernembered here by some of our citizens. Sinee then we learn that be died on Fridny, Jan. lOtli. It is to be hoped that the determinaticn of the Students' Lecture Association and of the CUoral Union to have their entertainments commence at promptly 8 o'clock will he rigidly carried out. Such a course will be heartily approved by the public. It appenrs to be a difflcult thing for the eastern prcss to recogntze the fact that the Michigan University is at the front. The New York Mail and Express credits Harvard with 14 rcpresentatives in congress, Yale with 13 and Michigan University with 10. The correct figures are U. of M. 17, Harvard 14, Yale 13. At Prlnceton College the lecture of Miss Amelia B. Edwards, the world-renowned student of the ancient Egyptian lanjjuage, literatura, archicology, religious and social life, is looked forward to with the greatest of aaticipation. Miss Edwards.is also to lecture here on Feb. 28th, her subject being " Egypt the Birthplace of Qreek Art." It is not the grace of his presence, the oratory of his tongue, or the elegance of his language tliat attracts in Mr. Moody's sermons. It is the plain, blunt, honest, earnestness. His words come from a pure heart with one determination only, and that to do good to his fellow-taen, and to polnt out the way which will lead tho human family to purer thoughts and more contented lives. A new winter practico house, wblch is saoii to lie huilt nt the Uaiversity of Peniisylvania, at a cost of $7,000, vrtn i, of untold advantage to university atliletics. The building will be a mere shell of coiruated iron, supported bya strong wooden framework, consisting of fourteen trusse?, with a hundred feet span. It will be 200 feet Ion?, 100 feet wide, 30 íect high at the sides, and 55 feet high in tlie center. The building will be lighted by forty-four Windows, each measuring 5x10 feet, and frotn eight to ten feet from the ground, eo os to glve no gliring background. The who'.e inferior will be painted wliite. At a complimentary binquet to the resident alumni of the Beta Tlieta Pi fraternity, at the hotel Cadillac, Detroit, given by L:imbda Chapter of the U. of M., on Friday evening last, there was a large attendance of members of the fraternity throughout tlio state. The tables were set in the main dining room in the form of a letter "T." In the center was a huge terra cotta dog, which animal is the patrón guard of all the fraternity banqueta. The members, ho wever, cali it a "dorg." The menu was excelleutly served and carefully stored away, while the Detroit Society orchestra discoursed swcet strains. Junius E. Beal wns toastmaster and the toasts and responses were as folio ws: Address of welcome, E. V. Dow; response, W. C Spragne; "Looking backward," Willlam A. Mooie; "Our Fraternity," B. B. Dvis; "Our semi-centennial," G. W. Whyte; "Boys of '49," Maj. W. C. Ranaom; ''New England Betas," S. H. TufUj "The Beta 'Dorg,'" K. A. Phillips; "Lunbda's alumni," J. H. Grant; "Lnoking forward," O. F. nunt. The entertainment given by the Lotus Glee Club, last Friday evening, was the finest eftbrt yet made to picase the wonderfully fine audiences the L"Cture As?ociation course has drawn this year. One great feature of the singing of tliis club is the distinctness with which they pronounce each word. Xot a syllable was uttered by one of the singers that could not be heard plainly by the audlence. All honor to tliis fine quartet of singers for daring to make this welcome innovatlon, for it is an innovation. To speak especiully of any one piece rendered would be unjust to the others, for all were as near perfect as could be. The singing of some of the old songs such as the "Sanda o' Dee," and "Jolin Anderson My Joe John," carried some of the okler people in the audience back to their cliildhood days when their mothers sang to them the popular airs of long ago. Miss Marshall's reading was also captivating. From the first syllable that escaped her lips It was evident that she had captured the audience, and encoré after encoré proved how effectually. The association have rea8on to congratúlate themselves upon the grand success they are achieving this year. Every number in the course so far has been excellent. HAVE YOü ANY OF TEEM? To the COürier:- About 350 vols. of the Adelphi Library are gone, many of which the students have left where they roomed. We hope all citizens will take the trouble to return them to Calklns' or Goodyear'sdmg store soon as they are to be sold. Library Com. RESPOXSIIIIL1TY OF COLLEGE MEN. "The university is the training camp of the future. The scholar the champion of the coming years. Napoleon overran Europe wlth drum tap and tivouac - the next Napoleon shall form his battalions at the tap of the schoolliouse bel], and Ms captains shall come with cap and gown. Watcrloo was won at Oxford - Sedan at Berlín. So Germany plants her colleges in the shadow of the French forts, and the professor smiles amkl liis students as he notes the sentinel stalking against tlie fky. The farmer has learned that uraiEs mix better with his soil than the waste of seablrds, and the professor walks by his side as he spread3 the sliowers in the verdure of his Held, and locks the sunshine in the glory of his harvest. A button is pressed by a child's finger and the work of a iiillllon men is done. The hand is nothing- tlic brátó e'verythiDff. Pbygical prowess bas had its day and tlie age of reason has come. The lioii-Iiearted Hichard challengiiifr Siiladin to single combat is absurd, for even Gog and Magog shall wage the Armaseddon trom their closets and look not upon tho blood that runs to the bridle bit. Science is everythinic! Learning is supreme and you are its prophets. Here tlie Olympic games of the rcpublic - and you lts cliosen athletes. It is yours, then, to grapple with these problems, to confront and master these dangers. Yours to decide whetlier the tretnendous forcea of this republic shall be kept in balance, or whether unbalanced they shall bring chaos; whether sixty million raen are capable ot self-governinent, or whether liberty shall be losf to them who would give their lives to maintain it. Your responsibility is appalling. You stand in the pass behind whtch the world's liberties are guarded. This government carries the hopes of the human race. Blot out the beacon that lights the portals of this republie, and the world is adrift again. liut. save the republic; establish the light of its beacon over the troubled waters, and ono by one the nations of the earth shall drop anchor and be at rest in the harbor of universal liberty. Let one who loves this republic as he loves hls life, and whose heart is thrilled with the majesty of its misslons speak to you now of the dangers that threaten its peace and prosperity and the means by wliich they may be honorably averted." - Henry W. Grady before the literary societieof the Univerity ot' Virginia, June, 1880.