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AT OTHER COLLEGES.

Yale.

- The finances of the foot-ball eleven are in a flourishing condition.

- Crews from the three lower classes are in training for the spring regatta.

- The janitor of the Gymnasium has been discovered to be guilty of theft.

- The University and the '78 and '79 class-crews have been out on the harbor for practice.

- Of the twenty men in the third division of the Freshman class, nineteen have been warned for low standing.

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Oxford and Cambridge.- Oxford University is preparing to elect a new Professor of Poetry in the place of Sir Francis Doyle. Most of the students, it is said, would like to have Matthew Arnold.

- The Oxford-Cambridge race will take place March 24. Cambridge is the favorite, and, should she win, the number of races won by each university will be equal.

- At the recent Mathematical Tripos examination, at Cambridge, two ladies obtained mathematical honors. One attained the standard of senior optime, and the other of junior optime.

- There will be in residence at Cambridge, during the present Lent term, more than fifty students, who have come from a distance to attend the lectures on the higher Education of Women.

Columbia.- The School of Mines has organized a chemical society.

- Mr. Goodwin has been re-elected captain of the University crew.

- The Trustees have decided that the monitors of every class shall receive $25 each term. Should no students avail themselves of this offer, the roll of the whole College will be called every morning.

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