A painful pause! Cheekiest student of the class repeats, "Yes, sir."

Prof. Gentlemen, you have seen a phenomenon which, until now, was unheard of. - Ex.

RANDOM grabs from the Yale Courant:-

"On Wednesday several Juniors thought it would be a pleasant thing to take the Soldene Troupe out sleighing on Whalley Avenue. A certain classmate heard of it and determined to go them one better. He sent up a card as follows: 'Prof. - would be happy to accompany the ladies about the college grounds, if they are willing.' A Professor was not to be sneezed at, so they 'shot' the boys, who had the pleasure of seeing the 'Prof.' explaining the buildings to the ladies."

"Over one third of the members of '77 attended their class prayer-meeting Sunday."

THE Amherst Student on Col. T. W. Higginson and Harvard:-

"This opinion may be well founded, for we look upon our sister college with much respect; but we fear that the eminent litterateur regards his Alma Mater in the same light that he does himself, with over-appreciation."

Would that we could put in print the peculiar and expressive "Ah," with eyebrow accompaniment, with which the average Harvard man would acknowledge the above compliment. The Student also says: "There are more students in college from Brooklyn, than from any other one place, except Amherst." This is easily explained. Beecher went to Amherst.