THE following advertisement appears in the Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates' Journal:

THE DEBTS AND LIABILITIES of Members of the Universities ARRANGED for them, or SETTLED. Every kind of Banking and Legal Business transacted. Established, 1854. London Bankers: Bank of England. - MR. ST. SWITHIN WILLIAMS, Solicitor and Private Banker, 136 High Street, Oxford.

Great Caesar's ghost! "The debts and liabilities of members of the Universities arranged for them, or settled." Think of this! Debts may be contracted to any amount, and a philanthropist is at hand to "arrange" them, or, if more convenient, to entirely relieve you of the disagreeable necessity of settling them. We are inclined to think that if such an obliging person opened his "Private Banking-House" in Cambridge, we should hereafter deny ourselves no luxury. Of the two plans of removing the incumbrances, the latter is the only one to be considered. Why bother to have your debts "arranged" when they can be promptly settled - by some one else?

THE Yale Lit., speaking of the Lampoon, makes the following naive remark:

"The engraving about the foot-ball game in New Haven is accompanied by a base and altogether absurd insinuation; which is not witty."

THE Pall Mall Gazette, in regard to the challenge Cornell has sent to England, says: "It is to be regretted if the refusal of Cambridge to row should be interpreted, as very likely it will be, into a confession of fear of the prowess of American oarsmen. But the truth is, that these foreign aspirations are a nuisance to university men. If accepted, the long vacation is sacrificed, and that for a game which is not worth the candle. It is felt that there is no special honor to be gained by rowing and defeating an American club; but the match, if made, will entail, in justice to the English club, painstaking and training for weeks, just as if for an important regatta or match. It is flattering on the part of Americans and other foreigners to be so anxious to measure strength with English clubs; but English clubs certainly do not appreciate the flattery. If the system goes on, there is no saying where. it will stop. German and even Japanese students will next want to try their hands, and the university boating clubs will not be able to call their vacation their own. If Oxford should choose to accept such challenges, the public will be glad of the sport and of the self-sacrifice which it entails; but if Cambridge decline to be bothered by the intrusion, we cannot blame them."

Mr. T. W. Higginson, in a letter to the Boston Advertiser, says:

"I have served for half a dozen years on the academical examining committee appointed by the Harvard Overseers, and have been assigned, during several of these years, to the sub-committee on Greek. I confidently assert that Harvard College produces better Greek scholars than it produced thirty years ago. That the general interest in Greek is less cannot be doubted; but the repeated evidence of the aforesaid examining committee shows that this is not true of Greek alone, but of all purely literary studies, English not excepted. This is due partly to the great scientific advances made during the last few years, and partly, as some of us think, to certain defects in the general tone and administration of the college."

WE learn from the Illini, the organ of the Illinois Industrial University, that at Commencement "Harvard College brings the whole class out, and limits their performances to three and one half minutes."

The information reaches us a little indirectly, but we dare say that the statement, coming from such high authority, is in the main correct. We do not, however, remember any past Commencement when the whole class performed, so we are led to suspect that this is a new device which the "tyrants and oppressors" - the Faculty - have conspired to "spring" upon us this year, and that their wicked plot has leaked out upon the prairies of Illinois. Let every Senior, therefore, begin immediately on his three-and-one-half-minute performance. Yet, if it is not too late, we would humbly suggest that there is one serious objection to the innovation. The present Senior Class numbers 192; deducting a dozen as an allowance for those who will pass degree-less from these halls, 180 will graduate; 180 X 3 1/2 minutes = 10 1/2 hours, which is rather a long time for men to sit listening to "parts," - and men, too, who have generally been thought to be somewhat interested in the dinner which occurs on that day. For their own interest the "tyrants and oppressors" ought to reconsider their action.

THE College of the City of New York has put forth an organ entitled The College Echo. It is not for such modest persons as ourselves to speak in any terms whatever of a paper which is capable of breaking forth in strains like the following:-

"You have heard in some great symphony the many-voiced orchestra breaking forth with-full exultant strength to carry in the noblest harmony the lofty song; and anon. while the multitudinous air was still pulsing with rich vibrations, you have heard a rare, sweet strain floating from a single instrument, and, voicing itself among the lessening chords, like the notes of an AEolian harp above the diapason of the sea-waves, filling the air with tremulous beauty, and breathing into the soul of the listener the tearful happiness of perfect pleasure,"