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AT OTHER COLLEGES.

Yale.

- The University crew's new paper shell is a success.

- Two days, June 11 and 19, have been set apart by the Faculty for outsiders to buy furniture, etc., from the students.

- The crew are at present "all healthy, happy, and pulling an excellent stroke."

- The Aurora Borealis was the motive-power of the Junior Telegraph Co., the other night.

- The row of foetal skeletons in the vertebrate room of the Peabody is called by Professor Marsh

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his Bible-class.

- "The Rifle Club are in excellent discipline, and there can be no uncertainty about the result of our match with Harvard." Indeed! Is Harvard so sure to win?

- The Yale Opera House is to be a large, fine building, and will cost $75,000. It will have a seating capacity of 2,500; will contain a stage seventy-five feet long by forty deep, a dancing-hall seventy-five by sixty-five feet, and a large dining-hall for the convenience of Junior and Senior promenades.

Princeton.- A Gun Club has been organized, with the idea of encouraging "field-shooting, etc."

- Parmly took the first prize in throwing the hammer at the New York Athletic games.

- The new fence is a disappointment, as it cannot be "sot on" without painfully lacerating results.

- A Class Day is to be enjoyed with the new feature, - a campus roped in, guarded by police, and lighted by Chinese lanterns.

- The Class of '78 are to have the Oxford caps. The innovation is opposed and the opposition pointed with the moral, "It is far easier to wear Oxford caps than to turn out Oxford scholars."

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.

- 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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