E. Hunt Allen, of the freshman class, whose arm was broken at the boathouse accident, has returned to college.

The book-stack of the new building to be erected for the great public library of Boston, will be constructed on the same general plan as the new wing of Gore Hall.

The Boston University Law School has been compelled to continue its work this term in the old building as the new hall on Beacon Street is not quite completed.

Mr. Maxmilian Reder, an art student of Munich, has arranged an exhibition of photographs etc., in room 151, Young's Hotel. He would like to show his photographs to any one interested in art.

The author of the sketch of Gambetta, lately printed in the Century, has written for the same magazine an article on "The Forty Immortals" of the French Academy, which is accompanied by many portraits.

A dispatch from London says that the resignation of Minister Lowell of the rector ship of St. Andrews is much regretted both by his supporters among the electors and by the officers of the university.

The annual football match between Oxford and Cambridge for 1883-84, was won by Oxford. The play of the "Cantabs" was below the standard of last year, and, while each man played for his own glory, the Oxford men played as a team and without selfishness, winning a comparatively easy victory. The score was, Oxford, Three goals and four tries; Cambridge, one goal. Out of the eleven contests played Oxford has won five, Cambridge two, and four have been drawn.

PLUCK.Prof. Stillman argues from a study of the instantaneous photographs, taken by Mr. Murybridge, that the speed in animals and in men depends on conformation of muscular tissue and "much also on the nervous energy or will transmitted to the muscles, technically known as courage or pluck."