- Professor G. L. Raymond, who has been abroad for two years, has returned to occupy the newly created chair of oratory.

- Williams College has graduated 31 Members of Congress, 5 United States Senators, 8 Governors, 16 Judges of the Supreme Court, 32 Presidents of Colleges, and 760 Clergymen.

- At the college boarding-house, where seventy students board, the expenses of last term exceeded the receipts by $500, and the board has now been raised from $300 to $3.50 per week.

Miscellaneous.- A new boat-house is talked of at Trinity.

- There are thirty-eight Roman Catholic colleges in this country.

- The New England colleges have one hundred and twenty Chinese students.

- There are ten thousand students in attendance at the Moslem University at Cairo.

- Contrary to the usual practice, no students of Middlebury College are allowed to teach during this winter.

- It has been suggested that the college faculties have a voice in the selection of the orators for the intercollegiate contests.

- Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, has given $50,000 to found professorships in History, Literature, and Ethics in the University of Virginia.

- Syracuse University has recently been presented with a watch about three hundred years old. The watch weighs nearly half a pound, troy weight, and keeps very good time.

- The Cornell Senior Class elections occurred on Saturday, January 27, and were attended by "the usual wire-pulling, cliquing, slanders, misrepresentations, and ill feeling."

- There have been 63 Members of Congress and 16 United States Senators among the graduates of Dartmouth, not including two Congressmen and one Senator elect. The upper House of the Canadian Parliament has also contained one Dartmouth man, and the lower House three.