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BREVITIES.

PRINCETON has fifty-eight post-graduate students.

MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY has 64 members in its Faculty, and 1,342 students.

THE new professor of Physics and Astronomy in the Kansas University is only twenty-one years old. How old are the students?

MR. RICE, the editor of the North American Review, was a classmate of Mr. Mallock, the author of "The New Republic," at Oxford.

INSTRUCTOR. Why does a cloud stay up in the air, if the particles of water are heavier than those of air?

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STUDENT. Give it up.

INSTRUCTOR. The explanation is that it does not stay up; it falls.

THE Yale Courant judges from the numerous hairpins lying around on their campus that Harvard is not the only New England College favored with co-education.

THE Commissioners for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge are thinking of establishing studentships, the holders of which shall engage to travel to Italy, Greece, or the Levant, and there devote themselves especially to the investigation of the local classical antiquities.

THE gilt cross above the entrance of the Library is said to have been brought from Louisburg at the time of its surrender to Sir William Pepperel and the Massachusetts troops, in 1745. This date is said to have been painted on it, with a further inscription, when it was preserved formerly among other relics in Harvard Hall; but, after the removal of the library from that building in 1841, these relics were transferred to a building in which the Panorama of Athens was exhibited, and, in a fire in which that building was consumed, the inscription on the cross was obliterated.

SCENE IN U. 5. - Two profusely polite Sophomores accidentally approach the Secretary's bar at the same time, and each backs out with many apologies.

First profusely polite Sophomore. I beg pardon, you first, sir.

Second p. p. S. By no means. You, sir.

First p. p. S. Not at all. I entreat you, sir.

At this critical state of affairs, our worthy Secretary loses patience, and exclaims, "Well, well, well, well, don't stand there all day quarrelling about it." (Fact.)

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