- An elective in English is called for.

- It costs a Princeton student $29.50 to fish with a net.

- The students have forsaken "hop-scotch" for the more fascinating game of "nigger baby."

- Everything is decided by contests now. Even the college organist "bears off the palm."

Cornell.- The interest in boating has entirely died out. Boats and boat-house are in a deserted, dilapidated condition.

- A "standing committee" of the Faculty has been appointed to find out and punish the originators of the Junior Exhibition mock scheme.

- Professor Felix Adler, who for a time occupied the chair of Hebrew Literature, has severed his connection with the University, owing to some difficulty about his religious views.

- President White has been making extensive purchases for the library in Florence, Rome, and Naples. Among these are the following: Three hundred illustrations of French Architecture, and one thousand relating to Italian Art of different periods; also a large number of the mural decorations of Pompeii; many French and German works on ancient cities, and a series of early printed missals and manuscripts; also many valuable works on the modern history of Italy. The above are to be given to the library by the President, and will reach their destination before Commencement.

Miscellaneous.- The Williams Freshmen play foot-ball by moonlight.

- The Bowdoin Nine have secured new ball-grounds, and desire to arrange a match with Harvard.

- Union College recently received $10,000 to assist in the completion of her Memorial Hall. Mr. J. B. Cornell also gives $10,000, and Mr. Clarkson N. Potter $5,000 for the establishment of free scholarships.

- A few years ago, a large number of Michigan University students were suspended for cutting recitations to go to a circus; later a considerable number were suspended for hazing; now, dancing will not be allowed in University Hall, and the students howl at the regents, and say that there shall be no music on Class Day.

- A proposition to open the library of Brown University at Providence, R. I., on Sundays, has met with stout opposition from Mr. Reuben A. Guild, the college's veteran librarian, who says that such a proceeding would "shock the moral sense of many of the friends and patrons of Brown University, and do more harm than good to the students."