1ST SOPH. Why is the owner of a billiard-saloon like a Roman Consul?

2D SOPH. (wildly). Because neither can swim up a railroad track.

1ST SOPH. No; because both hold a cue-rule office.

WE have been requested by the editors of the Advocate to make the following correction (furnished by the Dean) of the statement in their last number:-

"The rule by which all the examinations for admission will be conducted in writing will be enforced this year, and there will be no exception of two of the examinations hitherto oral, as was stated."

Further changes made by the Faculty in regard to the examinations for admission are as follows:-

1. On page 52 of the Catalogue, line 10, strike out the words "and Latin at sight," and insert them at the end of line 7 (strike out the last two words in line 11 and all line 12).

By this the written translation of Latin at sight will be in connection with the Latin composition, not with the Cicero and Virgil.

2. No candidate will hereafter be admitted who fails wholly in Greek, Latin, or Mathematics.

3. The result of the examinations will not be communicated this year to the candidates personally, at the close of the examination on Saturday, as heretofore, but will be communicated to them by mail, in the following week.

Two alterations were also made by the Faculty last Monday evening in the list of electives:-

1. On page 3 of the "Studies of the Year 1874-75," after line 27, insert "9. Thucydides (Books I. and II.). - Demosthenes (Law Orations). - Athenian Legal Antiquities. Two or three times a week. Prof. GOODWIN."

This course will not be given unless Professor Goodwin returns.

2. On page 4, line 13, strike out "and Juniors."

This allows Juniors to take Latin 5 without taking Latin 6.