And announces mate in four more moves.

ON Wednesday afternoon half a dozen Sophomores made a bet of a wine supper with some of their comrades, that they could pass entirely through the Fifth Ward with orange ribbons in their button-boles. They had got nearly through when a crowd pitched into them, and they ignominiously fled, but ran on in the direction in which they had been going, got through, and won the bet.

The Harvard Glee Club are expected to give a concert in New York some time next month. They are said to put on considerable "dog" in the manner of conducting their concerts, and to sing very good selections.

A region twenty-five miles square about the head of the Delaware River, in New York, furnishes four of Yale's editors. - Yale Courant.

Why does the judgment of Providence fall so heavily on that unfortunate country? This is worse than the ice-gorge!

WE have often heard it stated that there is more general musical culture in this country than in England; and this assertion seems borne out by the fact that the greatest names which appear in the programme of the Annual Malvern College Concert are those of Donizetti and Diabelli, who have one selection each out of fourteen numbers. We think with complacency of the selections from Mendelssohn, Haydn, Weber, and Wagner which filled the programme of our last concert. The poetry in the Malvernian is better than that in most of our English exchanges.