Oscar Wilde lectures in the Music Hall, Boston, on Tuesday evening. Subject, "The English Renaissance."

The annual dinner and Webster centennial celebration of the Dartmouth College alumni took place last evening at the Revere House.

The gymnasium was literally swarming with men yesterday. It seemed as if every available machine in the gymnasium were in use. At 5 o'clock there were nearly three hundred practising.

The success of the "OEdipus" in Boston does not fulfil the expectations of the manager. It will probably meet with more favor in other cities which have not had an opportunity of seeing it before.

The training of the University nine (at Yale) up to within three weeks of taking the field will consist of boxing, only. - [N. H. Union.] Are we to have a repetition next spring, of the scenes on the Yale foot ball field last fall?

At the Boston Theatre Monday evening, some one laughed so heartily at Denman Thompson as "Uncle Josh," that he or she lost a set of artificial teeth. People should be very careful about carrying things like these, as they are liable to be lost at any time without the proprietor's noticing it.

The fourteenth annual meeting of the Bowdoin Alumni Association of Boston and vicinity was held at Young's Hotel last evening. The portrait of the late President Leonard Woods, which has just been finished, was exhibited, as well as a portrait of Professor Packard, and some twenty photographs of the most important paintings in the college.

Rodney Wallace of Fitchburg, Mass., has given to Smith College a $5,000 scholarship to help indigent students. He has also contributed $2,000 to aid in building a music hall, and $2,000 for the art collection of the new art gallery. The gift of $5,000 is to be a nucleus for a fund of $50,000, which the college officers will endeavor to establish for the assistance of those students who need help.