- Professor Tenney intends to lead a college exploring party of fifteen to the Rocky Mountains during the coming summer. The objects of the expedition are to give practical instruction to the students, to make collections for the college, and to advance science.

Columbia.- Efforts are being made to form a Rifle Club.

- Tickets entitling the holder to all the privileges of the boat-house are now sold for five dollars.

- The "excuse system" has been abolished, and students are now allowed to absent themselves from one quarter of the exercises in each department.

Cornell.- The formation of a Student's Relief Committee is agitated.

- Post-graduate courses leading to the higher degrees, among which is Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, have been established.

- The Cadet Corps has begun rifle practice, the government furnishing the ammunition. The ambition of the corps is stimulated by the prospect of a match with Harvard.

Miscellaneous.- Two monthly papers are to be started at Colby University.

- Wabash University (Indiana) has received a donation of $ 118,000.

- The Oxford cap is to be worn by the students of Michigan University.

- The number of matriculations at Cambridge this year was 659, an increase of sixteen over last year.

- The Amherst Gymnasium exhibition takes place on Saturday, and a large number of entries have been made.