The Creighton Chronicle . Those who have believed that intercollegiate athletics weretremendously exaggerated, are beginning to hope that cessa-tion of games between Harvard and its closest friends insport may perhaps lead to a sounder basis for rivalry. Thetime and money spent in preparation for the Princeton-Yale-Harvard contests and in the contests themselves, the publicitygiven to each annual series of meets, their interference with thefunctions which institutions of learning are supposed to per-form, and the steady approach of intercollegiate athletics tothe standards of professionalism h
The Creighton Chronicle . Those who have believed that intercollegiate athletics weretremendously exaggerated, are beginning to hope that cessa-tion of games between Harvard and its closest friends insport may perhaps lead to a sounder basis for rivalry. Thetime and money spent in preparation for the Princeton-Yale-Harvard contests and in the contests themselves, the publicitygiven to each annual series of meets, their interference with thefunctions which institutions of learning are supposed to per-form, and the steady approach of intercollegiate athletics tothe standards of professionalism have been deplored by manyfriends of sport. If the war brings about a reform of some ofthe existing abuses, that result will be welcomed, although at-tained at a terrific cost. The Michigan alumni collected during the past school year$43, All of the universities in Petrograd except the medicalschools have been closed for a year in pursuance of a plan toevacuate the unnecessary portion of the population in EECENT DISCOVERIES CONCERNING NEBULAE*Wm. F. Rigge, S. J. HE term nebula (plural nebulae) is a Latin wordmeaning a cloud. It is applied by astronomers to aclass of heavenly bodies that look like shining cloudswith patches or regions of brighter or fainter lum-inosity gradually merging into one another. Forthe most part they are without any well-definedstellar points. A few of the larger nebulae, such asthe one in Andromeda and the one in Orion, are vis-ible to the naked eye on a clear, moonless night. Though ratherindistinct, and bearing a close resemblance to a candle lightseen through oiled paper, they have been known from the telescope is brought to bear upon them, thenebulae are found to have all kinds of shapes. Some look quiteregular like the ring nebula in Lyra and the dumb-bell nebula inVulpecula; others have a more or less close likeness to disks orwheels seen at all angles. A great many, as is the case with thenebula in Orion, are of
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