FROM a sonnet in the Williams Athenaeum:-

"And fern and harebell bowed in wavy grace,

For that she deigned to notice them at all.

The tufted moss a velvet carpet lay,

Proud if her rustling dress might even touch;

And where, perchance, her springy footstep fell,

It shrank abashed, as having asked too much."

THE Yale Faculty has forbidden the Nine to play outside of the limits of New Haven during term-time.

The private police officer who patrolled the Yale College grounds has been convicted of "immorality" and discharged.

As many of the "sweeps" - apparently Yale for scout - have been caught thieving, the Courant fears that property will be very insecure.

THE habits of the students in the mixed colleges may be imagined from the subjoined extract from Madisonensis:-

"One of the young ladies of Syracuse University is suffering from a severe attack of small-pox. A number of others are in quarantine, having exposed themselves to this loathsome disease by kissing the patient before her condition was known. Of course this has no connection with the fact that numbers of the gentlemen of the Institution are anxiously watching their symptoms from day to day and restricting themselves in regard to diet."

AMHERST is beginning to realize that boating is a luxury only to be indulged in by the wealthy. An enthusiastic graduate had promised to raise $500 for the purpose of erecting a boat-house for the College, but when called upon for the money, he was unable to respond. His course of action has disgusted the Student, which frankly states that the students cannot afford to contribute $1000 per annum for their amusement, and that if the alumni do not come forward, the Amherst crew must cease to exist.

THE Cambridge Journal was amalgamated with the Oxford Journal in October, 1875, and the two great universities now publish a single weekly, called the Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates' Journal.

There are 504 Freshmen at Oxford. Of the twenty-two colleges, New College has the largest number, - 63; and 49 are unattached. At Cambridge the Freshmen are more numerous. In seventeen colleges there are 681. Of these St. John's has 109, and Trinity 159.

IT may gratify the managers of the recent explosion at University to learn that their action has been widely noticed by the college press, and has also figured, in a somewhat embellished from, in the columns of the New York Sun. The reputation which attaches itself to such reports is, however, anything but creditable to the College, and it is to be hoped that the thoughtless students who so disgraced the name of Harvard a few weeks ago will hereafter restrain their pranks within the bounds of common decency.

THE Freshman class at Hamilton has "bolted" - i. e. refused to attend college exercise - on account of the suspension of two of its members. This proceeding appears to have been quite common at Hamilton, and the Faculty are disinclined to yield. At the same time, they seem unwilling to expel the whole class, and matters are in a thoroughly unsettled condition.

Such a state of things is discreditable both to Faculty and students. It is characteristic rather of a manufacturing town than of a University.

THE Chronicle, of the University of Michigan, publishes. a long article on Harvard. It is written in a very friendly spirit, and in better English than is generally discovered in that longitude, by a person who appears to consider himself familiar with his subject. His views on some matters, however, are remarkable. The following sentences are so replete with novelty that they deserve attention:-

"Harvard builds grand Memorial Halls, but the student turns away from their magnificent proportions to gaze upon Hollis, Massachusetts, and Stoughton Halls, rich with memories of the past. It must be confessed that they are not calculated to remind one of home. The wood-work is rough and unpainted; the windows are dirty and dim; the walls are dingy and smoked. Yet the Harvard student counts it a privilege to stretch his limbs beneath their mossy roofs, and the older the building is the more valuable becomes his habitation. He cares not for the rickety stairs or unpainted walls; he gazes upon the traces of illustrious predecessors and is happy."