Notes

Columbia University's trustees tendered a dinner and an expensive clock to President Nicholas Murray Butler to celebrate the 25th year of his incumbency.

Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.) announced its acquisition of a president, which it had lacked since the resignation of Dr. John H. McCracken. Lafayette had secured the services of Dr. William Mather Lewis, vigorous, eloquent chief of George Washington University (Washington, D. C.). To the latter, a typical city institution, Dr. Lewis had taken (in 1923) that executive ability which had previously, in Wartime, put him in charge of the national commission of patriotic societies and, later, of the Savings Division of the U. S. Treasury (to sell Thrift Stamps). To Lafayette, an institution one-fifth the size of George Washington but with a more notable academic tradition, Dr. Lewis would take that scholarship, personal and exemplary, which made him a success as headmaster (1906-13) of Lake Forest Academy (Lake Forest, Ill.) and which the Encyclopaedia Britannica recognized when it enlisted him as a contributor.

Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.; enrollment, 3,146) suspended all classes one afternoon last week so that the students might parade to the railroad station, return and present to President Frank Palmer Speare a muscular, thick-furred canine, one of the famed Husky-dog team that took diphtheria antitoxin to Nome in 1925. It was a gift, a new Northeastern mascot, from Dog-driver Leonhard Seppala. Driver Seppala was present. He and the dog rode on a float from the station, with co-ed attendants. The blither spirits of Boston University (enrollment: 10,979) took a leaf from Harvard's book of etiquet and saluted the Northeastern parade with showers of eggs, ice, vegetables;. The Northeasterners did not retaliate. . . . Accepting the Husky-dog, whose team-leader, Balto, has lately been on view in a Los Angeles dime museum "for men only" (TIME, Feb. 28), President Speare conferred upon it a "roads scholarship."

Johns Hopkins University, proponent of education that is "higher" in fact as well as in name, last week made a contribution to the art of inter-class warfare. The sophomore and freshman officers drew up an agreement that "there shall be no kidnaping or fights between groups of men before noon on Saturday, March 19." Class banquets, which at Johns Hopkins are held secretly and later "discovered" and raided, might be held only within a specified period. And "in the event a person is kidnaped and kept away from home all night a notice of his safety shall be sent to those with whom he lives."

Harvard University returned to normal after its two-weeks' District Court sensation--the trial of 39 students and "townies" for rioting in Harvard Square with eggs, ice, bottles (TIME, Feb. 21 et seq.). Four students and a smoke-shoppe proprietor were fined $25 each and sentenced to ten days in the house of correction. Four other students were fined $20. One was fined $10, one $1. Three students were acquitted. The remaining defendants were released for lack of identification. President Abbott Lawrence Lowell attended court sessions and went bond for his students, all of whom appealed their cases. Learned Judge Frederick Hathaway Chase, Harvard '92, chief counsel for the University, led the defense, which tried to show that Cambridge police had bashed and bludgeoned wantonly with nightsticks, had "begun" the riot.

Cambridge University gave birth to a Hippolytus* Club, of which the professed purpose was "to reassert the supremacy of the male." The prospectus said: "Convinced that the feminine influence is eating like a cancer into modern civilization, the Hippolytus Club will blaze the trail toward an era of uncompromising masculinity . . . shatter the domination of Eve . . . restore the initiative of Adam. . . ." Despatches failed to report upon what issues the Hippolyti would refuse to compromise.

Oxford University was sarcastically exhorted by Isis, spasmodic campus magazine: "... We have good reason to believe that not sufficient alcohol is consumed in this town. Drinking gallons of beer is not enough. Nobody ever secured alcohol poisoning or a gouty foot by the agency of beer. More wine and better wine should constantly be drunk at Oxford. Only thus shall we once more attain that mellow if slightly coarse flavor which once was characteristic of English civilization."

The University of Chicago mourned its president emeritus, Dr. Harry Pratt Judson . . . . A student and professor of history. Williams '70, he was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota when, in 1892, John D. Rockefeller founded the University of Chicago. President William Rainey Harper of the new institution sent for Dr. Judson, made him dean, later faculty dean. He was the executive right hand of Dr. Harper's organizing genius. Of all the cultured men the university brought to a crass young city, he was perhaps the most polished. After Dr. Harper's death in 1906, Dr. Judson served as president until 1923, being succeeded by Dr. Ernest DeWitt Burton, who died in 1925. Dr. Max Mason is now Chicago's president.

Johns Hopkins University mourned its president emeritus, Dr. Ira Remsen, Williams '70, last survivor of the original faculty assembled in 1876 by Dr. Daniel Coit Gilman. His life had been spent in the service of pure science. He founded the American Chemical Journal in 1879 and edited it for 40 years. Among his achievements was saccharine (coal tar product, 500 times sweeter than sugar), for which he sought neither patents nor money.

*In Greek legend, Hippolytus is a young man who refused to accept the advances of his stepmother, Phaedra, who thereupon told her husband she had been insulted. The husband, King Theseus of Attica, had Hippolytus torn asunder by horses. Remorseful, Phaedra, strangled herself. Goddess Artemis, admiring Hippolytus, engaged the services of Aesculapius, Mount Olympus physician, who put Hippolytus together again and brought him to life. Artemis installed him as her priest in Italy. . . Playwrights Euripedes, Seneca, Racine, Pradon and Smith unanimously treated Phaedra as a tragic heroine.