WE learn the following bit of news through the Record:-

"The representatives of five colleges met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New York, April 3, to make definite arrangements for the intercollegiate contest. The colleges represented were Williams, Princeton, University of New York, Wesleyan, and Columbia. It was decided that the first contest should take place January 7, 1875, in the Academy of Music, in New York City. There will be contests in oratory and essay-writing. The following judges were appointed: Oratory, - Whitelaw Reid, William Cullen Bryant, and Dr. Chapin. Essays, - T. W. Higginson, James T. Fields, and Richard Grant White. Letters of encouragement were read from President McCosh and T. W. Higginson. It is expected that at the meeting in January all the colleges that sent delegates to the convention will be represented."

PIRATICAL STUDENT (who has just received a Public for cutting prayers). O that I had the Board of Overseers in my grasp! Would n't I make them walk the plank!

PRACTICAL FRIEND. I should think you would prefer having them plank the walks!

TO A HEAVENLY BODY.A POEM OF THE PERIOD.

Bright gem in sable curtain of the night,

Refinement subtle of ethereal might,

Pale undulating ray,

That lurid lights my ever-darkling gloom, -

My inner spirit craves empyrean room!

(Away, elliptic-circling fly, away!)

Effulges bright thy lustre crystalline

Upon the alabaster brow of mine,

Submerged in ebon night;