LEHIGH UNIVERSITY wants plank walks. The mud in the yard is knee-high.

WE acknowledge the receipt of the Boston Journal of Chemistry, replete with useful and interesting information.

IT is to be regretted that, though by no means least of the college press, the Williams Review should be like its boat-crew, - last in its arrival. - Cornell Times.

This stale gibe is by no means funny, and is very ungentlemanly. We all remember how pluckily that crew struggled against adverse fortune last year, and should think Cornell would be on better terms with Williams, - having cultivated her acquaintance so carefully in the race.

THIS is highly colored: "The lilacs are budding," says a Wisconsin editor. "You lilac Satan," responds one of his readers. "You violet truth," politely replied the editor. And both are given over to blue devils. - Ex.

WE have it on good authority that one of those rustic Aggies, living in West Springfield, raised last summer one hundred and fifty mullein-plants, under the hallucination that they were tobacco. - Review.

SCENE in a hen-roost, on a Sunday evening: "And, Pat, do you think it is right in us stealin' on the night of this houly day?" "Och, Jamie, that's a great moral question; hand us down another pullet." - Ex.

A HARTFORD gentleman who had tarried late at a wine supper found his wife awaiting his return in a high state of nervousness. Said she, "Here I've been waiting and rocking in a chair till my head swims round like a top." "Jess so where I've been," responded he; "it's in the atmosphere." - Spectator.

SAID a great Congregational preacher

To a hen, You 're a beautiful creature.

The hen, just for that, laid two eggs in his hat,

And thus did the Hen re-ward Beecher.

Yale Record.THERE is one Senior who evidently believes in Divine providence. Before going into a very poorly prepared recitation at the end of the term, he was heard to remark: "Well, I'll have to trust in God and sit by Stillman," and then added, parenthetically, "I guess the last idea is by far the best." - Ex.

THE Record has grown envious of the Courant, and has started a new department, entitled, -