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AT OTHER COLLEGES.

Yale.

Trinity.- Strong protests are being entered against evening chapel.

- The attempt to change the College colors has ingloriously failed, and still they say, "Long live the green and white!"

- Trinity is "proud" that their nine was beaten in its game with Yale by the same score that Harvard was; and their interest in base-ball is correspondingly increasing.

Miscellaneous.- Annuals everywhere.

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- Columbia has made Attorney-General Devens an LL.D.

- George William Curtis will deliver the Chancellor's address at the Union College Commencement.

- Pitching quoits has become the favorite recreation at Williams.

- Commencement Exercises at Tufts took place on Wednesday last.

- Amherst will hold entrance examinations, on June 20, at Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis.

- The surviving members of Bowdoin's class of 1844 are soon to have a reunion and class dinner in Portland.

- Professor D. C. Gilman, of the John Hopkins University, was lately married to a niece of Ex-President Woolsey of Yale.

- The name of Rev. Joseph Cook is mentioned in connection with a vacancy in the Faculty of the Bangor Theological Seminary.

- Ten thousand dollars have just been given to President Porter, of Union College, to be spent in the completion of Alumni and Memorial Hall.

- In the Phillips Academy six-oared boat-race against time, over the one-mile course at Exeter, the following time was made: First race, 7 m. 5s.; second, 7 m. 15 s.; third, 7 m. 35 s.

- Prof. W. D. Wilson, of Cornell, was lately elected honorary member of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain. He is one of the five Americans who have been elected to that society.

- Amherst will this year graduate seventy-five men. Of this number 42 are Republicans, 7 Democrats, and 22 Independents; 49 believe in total abstinence; 34 dance, 34 smoke, 10 chew, and 56 play cards; 13 are devoted to Political Economy, 11 to Philosophy, and I to the study of human nature; 7 are engaged, 4 "won't tell," while the remainder are still untrammelled.

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