- The Sheffield Scientific School has received a bequest of $500.
- The Seniors have petitioned for less work. They now have eighteen hours a week.
- A post-graduate course with the degree M. L. has been added to the Law School.
- Among the lecturers for the year are Professor Norton and Rev. Phillips Brooks.
- The challenge from the H. U. B. C. for an eight-oared race has been formally accepted by the Yale navy.
- There will be but two vacations this year, one of three weeks in the winter, and the summer vacation of eleven weeks. There will be a spring recess from March 28 to May 7.
- The Yale Catalogue shows the following attendance: Seniors, 118; Juniors, 137; Sophomores, 160; Freshmen, 154; total, 569; Scientific School, 206; Theological Students, 95; Medical, 36; Law, 60; Philosophy and Arts, 69. Whole number of students, 1,021.
Princeton.- The new base-ball ground will be ready for use in the spring.
- Dr. McCosh holds weekly library-meetings for the discussion of topics connected with mental science.
- The class-races occurred October 25. The course was a mile and a half, straight away, and was won by '78; time, 9:55.
- The Seniors have petitioned to the trustees for the removal of the "Finals," examinations which cover the ground of the Freshman and Sophomore work.
- The trustees have removed the billiard-tables and bowling-alleys from the gymnasium because they "were deleterious to the moral health of the community."
Columbia.- A Glee Club has been started.
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