Princeton Trustees' Meeting.

The first meeting of the trustees of Princeton since the inauguration of Pres. Patten was help last week. Pres. Patten presided and reported the gift of $50,000 from Mrs. Susan D. Brown to be used in the erection of a new college dormitory; of $25,000 from Mrs. Robert L. Stuart of New York for the foundation of a new professorship; of $5,000 from an unknown friend for the scholarship fund. Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy were conferred upon Prof. Durell of Dickinson College, on Prof. McNeil of Lake Forest University and on Prof. McMillan, President of Richmond College, Ohio. Among petitions granted was one which shows in a marked degree the difference in liberally of spirit as regards athletics between the Harvard and Princeton trustees. The petition was from the Princeton Eleven asking permission to play Yale in New York on Thanksgiving Day in case the Harvard Faculty refused to allow the Harvard Eleven that permission. The trustees, with no dissenting voice, granted this permission on condition that the Princeton Faculty assents.