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which is t o be named in honor of the donor. The dormitory will be ready for occupancy next September. The Hobart Herald 183 The plans for the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first exercises o f Lafayette College, which were held on May 9, 1832, have been made public. One of the aims of those having charge of this celebration-is to raise a fund of $500,000 for additional endowment, and already $162,500 of this amount has been subscribed, of which $100,000 was the gift of Ralph Voorhees of Clinton, N. J. It is proposed by the committee having the work in charge that a fund of $100,0 0 0 be raised by the classes from 1863 to 1883, in memory of Dr. Cattell, whose administration covered this period. This fund has been started b y a subscription of $5,000. The faculty athletic committee o f Stanford University, Calif., has made public its annual report to President David Starr Jordan on the condition of university athletics. On the subject of football reform, the committee submits as its opinion that close formation in play should be abolished ; that the modern game has deterioated from a sport to a business ; that the game is exclusive, since only men of heavy weight can participate ; and th a t the game is no longer in any sense a college sport, since students do not organize volunteer teams to play fo r the love of the gam e. Dealing with the game o f baseball, the committee declares “ that baseball is on a distinctively' lower level than any other college sport, both as regards the spirit o f amateurism and courtesy and fairness of p lay.” In conclusion, the faculty' investigators commend tennis, track work, and rowing to a more liberal participation by students, as helpful and manly sports. During the year Pennsylvania received in endowments and gifts the sum of $1,300,000. Of this amount the Wistar Institute of
