- Freshmen have appeared with bangers, and Juniors with the Oxford caps.

- BOOTH, '79, of the S. S. S., is practising for catcher on the University Nine.

- THE first number of the Yale Alumniad was read at the fifth meeting of the Yale Alumni Association, at Delmonico's, March 16.

- PROFESSOR MARSH has received from the Geological Society of London a medal, known as the Bigsby medal, accompanied by a letter speaking in flattering terms of his recent discoveries among the fossils.

Princeton. - THE Foot-Ball team have elected Nicoll, '77, captain.

- FAILING to get Mr. Vandenhoff, an engagement has been made with Mr. Murdoch, the elocutionist, to give a course of twelve lessons in oratory.

- At the Alumni supper Professor Lindsay and Mr. Parke Godwin presented the advantages of adding art studies to the College curriculum.

Amherst. - WORK has been temporarily suspended in the Laboratory, owing to a lack of chemicals.

- Three hundred dollars in gold has been recently given, by a friend of the College, for the purchase of models for the department of Anatomy.

- THE Edison Electric Pen is being tested by the Faculty with a view to its purchase for the copying of college documents, examination-papers, etc.

- PRESIDENT SEELYE has given all of his salary while a representative in Congress from Massachusetts to the town of Amherst, to be expended in laying sidewalks through the village.

- THE pledge-roll of the Antivenenean Society was lately presented to the Freshmen, and received forty new signatures. A secondary clause leaves the use of opium and tobacco optional.

- The schedule of studies for the next term has been arranged. Physics will be the only study required of the Juniors, and they will have German, Greek, Latin, Botany, Zoology, and Organic Chemistry from which to fill out the required sixteen hours. The Sophomores must take Latin, Greek, and Anatomy and Physiology, with French as a possible substitute for the latter, and Calculus for either Latin or Greek.

Columbia. - Sixty per cent is required in Physics.

- The Columbia student can cut chapel every third morning.

- The Glee Club is to be rejuvenated. The trustees have agreed to pay all the expenses, provided the club will furnish a choir for the morning chapel exercises.