THERE are 30,000 students in American colleges.

CLASS lives may be left at 3 Grays as well as at 33.

MR. LONGFELLOW will be seventy-three years old on February 27.

THE ballot-box will be ready in the reading-room on Monday morning.

PROFESSOR YOUNG has resigned his professorship in the Divinity School.

RUSSIAN students have been placed under the strictest military discipline.

PROFESSOR LANE'S exhaustive Latin Grammar will be published in the spring.

ONLY one half of the students in the Medical School have college diplomas.

THE Yale Alumni of Boston and vicinity dined at Young's Hotel last evening.

IT is now in order for some college paper to offer a clock to the new Gymnasium.

THE original Harvard Hall was destroyed one hundred and sixteen years ago.

THE next meeting of the O. K. will be held on the evening of Tuesday, February 17.

FRESHMEN will be pleased to learn that the Cambridge police force has been reduced.

MR. JOHN O. SARGENT has been elected President of the Harvard Club in New York.

ALL past members of the O. K. are cordially invited to attend the meetings of the club.

THE Corporation, not wishing to seem piratical, would not allow us to "walk the plank."

QUESTION on the examination paper in English I: "When, and how old did he (Chaucer) die?"

PRESIDENT Eliot has been elected president of the Old South Association for the ensuing year.

THE necessary annual expenses of a student at Yale are estimated at from $350 to $560 a year.

THREE watches were stolen from the Gymnasium Tuesday night, while their owners were exercising.

DR. BELLOWS was defeated at the last meeting of the Board of Overseers by a vote of thirteen to eight.

A NEW fire-alarm box has been placed at the junction of Cambridge and Kirkland Streets, numbered 56.

PROF. CHARLES S. SARGENT is making a tour of observation through the forests of the Southern States.

THE Freshmen hope to have their race with Columbia at New London on the same day as the University race.

IT showed a sense of the fitness of things in the Freshman to ask for a "box-stall" at the Globe the other night.

THE Oxford-Cambridge race will be rowed on the 20th of March, at 7.30 A.M. There has not been so early a start since 1866.

THE season has been a fine one for work at the Observatory, as the room where the large telescope is can never be heated.

THE fire-alarm box No. 54 has been removed from the corner of Sumner and Cambridge Streets and placed on Memorial Hall.

COPIES of No. 1 of the present volume of the Crimson have been obtained, and subscribers can have them by calling at Sever's.

THE seventh reunion of the association of the Sons of Brown University in Boston and vicinity will be held at Young's Hotel this evening.

THE annual dinner of the New York Harvard Club takes place February 10th at Delmonico's. The price of the tickets will be six dollars.

THE annual reunion of the association of the Delta Kappa Epsilon took place Tuesday evening at Parker's. Colonel Clark spoke for Harvard.

THOSE wishing to attend prayers at St. John's instead of at College Chapel during Lent may do so by petitioning to that effect. Service begins at 8 P.M.

THE correspondent of the Columbia Spectator says, in the issue of January 27, that a heavy snow-storm has precluded all possibility of out-door exercise here at present.

THE new cars of the Union Railway are forty in number, - twenty close and twenty open. They are finished in the Queen Anne style, and upholstered with velvet plush.

SNODKINS, at the theatre the other night, was much excited by a cry of "Down ! down in front !" because he thought it was meant for a personal reference to his mustache.

MESSRS. ROOSEVELT, '80, Mac Veagh, '81, Manning, '82, and Winthrop, '83, have consented to take charge of the polls and count the votes at the informal ballot for President.

THOSE members of the Law School who voted at the canvass taken recently by the Law School are expected not to vote again, as the result of that ballot will be taken into account.