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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Columbia is organizing a second eight.

The News dubs Dr. Crosby "officious."

Amherst, '83, has chosen Pach photographer.

There are nearly thirty-five hundred students at Leipsic University.

Thirty-seven cadets of the Pennsylvania Military Academy were expelled Monday night, for attending a theatrical exhibiton.

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It is rumored that Dr. McCosh is to retire from the presidency of Princeton College and is to be succeeded by Gen. McClellan.

"Another match factory started. The University of Mississippi is blessed with a co-ed department" is the way a Western paper puts it.

The Yale News modestly states that it (the News) "should be a source of gratification to the college just as much as the ball nine or the crew."

Ex-President Woolsey of Yale contributes a long article to the New York Independent upon the subject of "University Administration."

The Government Industrial School for Indian youths, for which appropriations were made by the last Congress, will be located at Lawrence, Kan.

The New York Critic has begun publishing a series of lists of books in various departments of knowledge most useful and valuable to students and amateurs.

Yale is having an epidemic of fires. The second fire of the week broke out in the president's house, and the students think now they have some chance of obtaining fire-escapes.

Last week's Congregationalist gives tables showing the number of professing Christians in various colleges. Amherst, according to this authority, leads the list, with Oberlin second and Harvard last.

The Vassar Miscellany and the Lasell Leaves alone of all our college exchanges affect practical politics, the former writing six-page editorials on Butler and Massachusetts politics, and the latter maintaining a special "political editor." A significant fact.

Bowdoin College has furnished to the nation a President, twenty-two senators and representatives in Congress, fourteen judges of high courts, nine governors of States, eighteen college presidents, a Longfellow, a Hawthorne and an S. S. Prentiss, says President Chamberlain.

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