Brown.- In order to secure better singing in the chapel, the President arranged for a double quartette to sit in front and lead the singing. But as this plan promised to interfere with the congregational singing, the matter was dropped.

Amherst.- President Seelye has returned from Washington.

- Amherst gives $130 annually in Gymnasium prizes.

- Interest in base ball is active. Two nines are at work in the Gymnasium.

Trinity.- The donations to the College during the past thirteen years have reached the sum of $960,591.

- The Faculty have severely censured the four classes for countenancing a wanton desecration of the College Chapel. The introduction of a dog in full masquerade costume constituted the offence.

Miscellaneous.- Oregon has opened a State University.

- Longfellow's seventieth birthday was celebrated last week at Bowdoin College. After appropriate ceremonies, the meeting adjourned, to meet again on the eightieth anniversary of the poet.

- The Dartmouth Seniors intend to give the library a donation of $300.

- Nearly $1,000,000 was given to the various colleges during the past year.

- Greenwood Lake, about forty miles from New York, will probably be the place of the next contest of the R. A. of A. C.

- Professor B. L. Gildersleeve, of Johns Hopkins University, will deliver the annual oration before the societies, at Princeton, next June.

- The Alumni of Wesleyan have already subscribed more than $34,000 of the $100,000 which is to be their centennial gift to the College.

- The trustees of the Dean Academy have unanimously resolved to change the academy into a college for young ladies. After this year the young men are to be withdrawn, and another Wellesley started.

- Mr. John Welsh, president of the Centennial Board of Finance, has turned over the testimonial fund of $50,000, with which he was honored, to the University of Pennsylvania, to endow a "John Welsh Centennial Professorship."

- Italy has thrown its seventeen universities open to women. Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Holland have taken like action. The Sarbonae of France admit women, as do also the highest schools of medicine and surgery in Russia.