speaker. The student body should rise up and prevent the matter." New York University is to have a beautiful new building, to be known as "The Hall of Fame." The contract provides for the erection of 150 panels, each two feet by eight, in the colonnade. Fifty names will be inscribed in 1900. The public and the students are given a choice in the selection, one of the rules for which is that no name may be inscribed except of a person born in the United States. The name of John Harvard will be the first and Samuel J. Tilden the second name inscribed upon panels. Miss Helen Gould has contributed $100,000 to the building fund. Hon. John Barrett, formerly minister of this country to Siam, suggests that no wiser step could be taken by the government than to announce that 500 or 100 young men would be taken from the graduating classes of American colleges this next June, selected by competitive examination, then given a special course of instruction, preparatory to entering what could be called the Philippine civil service. A great deal of interest has been manifested in debating this year at Dartmouth. Valuable prizes have been given in extempore speaking, and the debating team that will battle against Brown on the Boer war question were given a week in Boston, to visit the libraries in order to prepare matter for the coming encounter. Bishop Hurst has announced that he has secured Pres. McKinley's consent, at the close of his presidential career, to accept the chair of international law at the new Methodist University which is about to be erected in Washington. On April 1, Chicago University was made $4,000,000 richer. On that date Pres. Harper had succeeded in duplicating the $2,000,000 gift promised by Mr. J. D. Rockefeller. Since Jan. 1, $400,000 of this sum has been raised. The University Endowment Fund is now placed at $11,000,000, of which $7,000,000 was given by the Standard Oil King alone. Late developments disclose the fact that the crack foot-ball team that represented Columbia last fall was not strictly amateur. This humili ating confession was made by the college faculty, who discovered doctored account books, and that amounts had been paid out to players to play on the University eleven. The result is a revolution in the athletic policy of Columbia. Another novel departure in the university development of Yale will be the establishment of a college bank. The deposits of the students are estimated at $75,000 a year. The bank will pay no interest, but will be a check and deposit institution for the convenience of students. Dartmouth has arranged for what will be known as "Brown week" during the second week of May. That week Dartmouth will meet Brown at Hanover in base-ball. She will debate with her on the English-Boer question, and there will be a dual athletic meet on the alumni oval. The Seniors of Brown have not only voted to wear gowns only on the first and last days of the spring term, and caps all the term, but also have decided not to have any intoxicating liquors at their class banquet. Notre Dame University this year bestowed the Laetare medal upon John A. Creighton of Omaha, Neb. This worthy gift is given every year to some distinguished man, who has made a Christian use of eminence in art, letters, science or wealth. Mr. Creighton has been a large benefactor of Creighton College. Statistics at Wesleyan show that in 1888-'89 the proportion of women in college was 7 per cent., while in 1898-'99, the number had grown to 23 per cent. While the rate of increase of all students in ten years has been 50 per cent., the increase of men has been only 24 per cent. Of the opinions expressed by members of the graduating classes of the past ten years, only 41 are in favor of the co-educational system, while 275 are opposed, The Department of Agriculture offers to graduates of agricultural colleges, who fulfil certain requirements, positions in the various bureaus at Washington. While the wages are only equal to those paid to skilled laborers, yet the opportunities for study and investigation are more than sufficient to compensate for this. J. E. McT., 'oo. ATHLETICS. BASE-BALL. Just at this season of the year our hopes rise and fall according to the appearance of the base-ball field. The fine weather permitted the team to go out on the diamond on March 13, but that night came "a frost, a killing frost," together with snow and rain, and "blasted" all our hopes. Meanwhile the team continues to labor in the cage and to get into condition to play the finest schedule of games ever arranged for a Holy Cross team. Manager Corcoran has labored earnestly, and the result is that he has not only more games than in any previous year, but he has secured college teams that have never before crossed bats with the representatives of Holy Cross. Here is the schedule, containing in all thirty games, twenty-two of which are on the home grounds. April 7-Trinity vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. April 11-Boston College vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. April 14-Wesleyan vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. April 16-Manhattan vs. Holy Cross at New York. April 19-Two games on Worcester Oval. Morning game, Worcester League Team vs. Holy Cross; afternoon game, Brown vs. Holy Cross. April 21-Yale vs. Holy Cross at New Haven. April 25-Columbia vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. April 28-Fordham vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. 2-Manhattan vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. 4-Princeton vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. 5-Andover vs. Holy Cross at Andover. 9-Yale Law School vs. Holy Cross at Wor May May May May cester. May 12- -Williams vs. Holy Cross at Williamstown. May 16-Tufts vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. May May May May 18-Boston University vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. May 23-Georgetown vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. 24-Fordham vs. Holy Cross at New York. 26-Brown vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. 28-Georgetown vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. May 30-Cornell vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. June 1-Lehigh vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. 2-University of Vermont vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. June June 4-Dartmouth vs. Holy Cross at Hanover. June 6-Harvard vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. 8-University of Pennsylvania vs. Holy Cross at Worcester. June June 9-Brown vs. Holy Cross at Providence. 13-Chicago University at Worcester. June 16-Harvard vs. Holy Cross at Cambridge. June 20-Worcester League vs. Holy Cross at Wor cester. O'Reilly, while practising in the cage with the baseball team, received an injury which will keep him out of the earlier games of the season. He will be missed very much, especially in base running. On Sunday, March 25, the annual spring meeting, to arouse enthusiasm for the coming season in baseball, was held in Fenwick Hall. The students were told that by giving their financial and moral support they could aid in making the record of the team for the coming season second to none of the many illustrious teams that have represented Holy Cross in past years. The speakers were Joseph F. X. Murphy, James W. Fitzpatrick, Jos. A. Mulhern, Michael J. Costello and Wm. Toohig of the Seniors, and John E. Dignan, Wm. G. Troy and Jos. Ryan of the Juniors. BASKET-BALL. " The activity that has prevailed in the "gym during the winter has been kept up during the past month by exciting games of basket-ball. A series |