- The Juniors have organized a political club, the Seniors have reorganized their Glee Club, and the base-ball clubs have been consolidated.

- By the will of Mr. J. B. Lyon, of Cleveland, the College receives forty thousand dollars, the first bequest since the death of Mr. Vassar.

Amherst.- Professor Shepherd has finished his lectures to the Seniors, and has gone South for the winter.

- The Seniors have a recess from Thanksgiving through the Christmas vacation, but will have no spring recess.

- President Seeley has finished his course in Mental Science with the Senior class, and will leave for Washington shortly after Thanksgiving.

- Candidates for admission to the Freshman class, coming from one of twenty-one schools (among which are Williston, Exeter, Boston Latin, Andover, Adams, and Cambridge High School), are now admitted in Latin and Greek without examination.

- President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University, has bought nearly half the collection of French books exhibited at the Centennial by a well-known Paris firm.

- The Trinity College Faculty have ordered that there be no more singing in the Yard or in College buildings; and the students have construed the rule as applying also to Chapel.

- Mr. F. F. Jewett, for some time private assistant in chemistry to Professor Gibbs, of Harvard University, has been appointed Professor of Chemistry in the Imperial University of Japan.

- Mr. Thomas William Lewis, of Caius College, has been appointed President of the Cambridge University Rowing Club, vice Mr. P. W. Brancker, who in leaving Cambridge leaves a vacancy in the University Eight. It is thought, however, that Mr. Prest, son, of the Archdeacon of Durham, will take the vacant seat. He is said to be a fair oar, as his father was when he was an undergraduate at St. John's College.