Hormuzd Rassam has received the first grand prize of $2400 from the Royal Academy of Science of Turin in consideration of the services he has rendered to science by his Assyrian and Babylonian discoveries, the results of which are deposited in the British Museum.

It is said that 63 per cent. of the college graduates in Ontario have their degrees from denominational institutions. This is significant, because it seems to prove, that in this instance the attempt of the state to control higher education has failed.

In a recent lecture on education in the south, the Rev. Dr. Mayo said that there are in the south 4,000,000 whites under twenty-one; of whom nearly half have never attended any school.

A department for women has been opened at Owens College, Manchester, England, which counts eighty students, two or three of whom are reading for degrees, and are allowed to attend the senior graduating classes of the college.

The Alpha Phi Society, a ladies' secret fraternity organization in Syracuse University, has recently formed the Eta chapter in Boston University. We read that during the past week three graduate members from Syracuse, one from Schenectady, one from the faculty of Wellesley College, and one from Boston "met nine enterprising and enthusiastic ladies of Boston University, and initiated them into the enchanting mysticism of the order." The Alpha Phi Society was organized in 1872.