- An Atlas Health Lift has been presented to the Gymnasium.

- Laboratory work is now performed in connection with the study of Physics.

- The Junior Promenade occurred on Tuesday evening. Financially it was not a success.

- There is no prospect of a New Haven professional nine for Yale to practise with this year.

- The crew subscription-list shows a very small amount subscribed. The Freshmen are especially backward.

- The class of '78 has received more appointments for Junior exhibition than any class that has yet been in college.

- The New Haven engineers, together with the Scientific School professors, have formed the New Haven Society of Engineers.

- The class in heavy gymnastics, numbering seventy-eight members, is divided into four sections according to strength. Twenty-eight marks are required to enter the first division, twenty-two the second, seventeen the third, and twelve the fourth. The basis for assigning marks is as follows: "The applicant places himself between the parallel bars, resting upon his hands with arms straight. He then lowers himself by bending the arms until they are in a flexed condition, then rises again. One mark is allowed each time he rises. The flexors of the arms and some of the chest-muscles are tested on the ladder or horizontal bar. The applicant hangs from the bar with arms extended; he then rises until the chin is on a level with the top of the bar, and then lowers himself until the arms are perfectly straight. In this movement, as above, swinging is not allowed. One mark is registered for every rise."

Princeton.- Witherspoon Hall is ready for students.

- Nearly two hundred volumes have been added recently to the library.

- Caps and gowns are used by a number of students, although they are required only on special occasions.

- Mr. McMaster will continue to act as Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Professor Burr, who was recently elected to fill that chair, having been induced to remain at the Troy Polytechnic School.

Williams.- Since its foundation, in 1754, the college has had eleven presidents.

- 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.