Extra hour in Political Economy I today at 2 P. M.

A new volume of essays by George Eliot will be published in the spring.

Albion College has a branch in Japan and gives diplomas to its graduates.The University of Lewisburg has received a gift of $100,000 from William Bucknell, of Philadelphia.

There will be a meeting of the College Faculty today in University 5 at 3.30 P. M.

Mr. Wendell will criticise Junior Theme III. before all sections, in Sever 11, today, at 2 o'clock.

The freshman algebra lesson for this week is as follows: SS 427-433, and examples, on page 254, 1-10, 17-20.

It is said that Mr. Matthew Arnold while in Boston, took elocution lessons under Professor Churchill, of Andover.

"Cambridge Sermons" by Dr. Alexander McKenzie, secretary of the Harvard board of overseers is a recent publication.

Photographs of the '87 football eleven can be procured at McCormick's, Winter street, Boston. Prices $1.00 and $1.50.

Matthew Arnold will probably be the next secretary of the Education Department at a salary of two thousand pounds per annum.

Mr. W. B. Noble, '84, has resigned the position of president of the board of directors at Memorial, on account of sickness. An election to fill the vacancy will be held in a few days.

Ulrich Zwingli, der schweizerische Reformator. Zur Feier des 400sten Jahrestages seiner Geburt (1. Jan. 1484). Dr. Theodore Vetter. Sever 11. 7.30 P. M.

Examination for entrance condition in German today in U. E. R. at 4 P. M.

It is found that there are now over 3,000,000 scholars for both sexes in the schools for Italy. This is the ninth part of the whole population of the kingdom.

Owing to the state of his health and declining years, Prof. Owen has resigned his appointment as superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum.

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.