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?

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.)

THE Law School crew is at present rowing as follows:-

1. G. K. Boutelle, 150 lbs. 5. D. S. Marvell, 163 lbs.

2. N. H. Davis, 161 lbs. 6. A. W. Hooper, 175 lbs.

3. N. Matthews, Jr., 155 lbs. 7. A. W. Cole, 168 lbs.

4. H. G. Danforth, 166 lbs. 8. F. Peabody, Jr., 172 lbs.

G. L. Cheney (Coxs.), 115 lbs.

Average weight, exclusive of coxswain, 163 3/4 lbs.

The color of the Law-School crew is light blue, that of the '79 crew is white.

THE Cambridge correspondent of the Spirit of the Times notwithstanding, the following are the weights of the Crew:-

Bancroft, 166 1/2 lbs. Smith, 197 lbs.

Schwartz, 207 1/2 lbs. Stow, 193 lbs.

Jacobs, 174 3/4 lbs. Otis, 175 lbs.

Brigham, 179 1/3 lbs. Trimble, 162 1/4 lbs.

Hooper, 172 lbs. Brandegee, 175 lbs.

These weights were taken on Saturday last, after the morning row, the men being stripped.

AT the meeting of the Board of Directors of Memorial Hall, on Wednesday evening, the resignation of Mr. G. W. Williams, one of the Directors from '82, was read and accepted. It was voted to rescind the rule which provides that allowance for temporary absence shall only be given for whole weeks beginning on Thursday morning, and that in future allowance shall be granted for every whole week of absence, on whatever day of the week that absence begins. The Board meets again next Monday evening.

AT the last meeting of the Board of Overseers the new system of Honors and Honorable Mention was referred to a committee of three. The Hon. Hugh McCulloch was appointed Lecturer on Political Economy for the rest of the current year. It is understood that this appointment is the beginning of a system of University Lectures. The expenses are to be paid by outside subscriptions, but the lectures are to be given under the direction of the College.

THE report of the Auditor of the Dining Association for the month of March is as follows:-

Dr.

Bills paid (less water-bill) $11,212.66

Water charge 29.55

Interest on debt 279.35

Reduction of debt 166.67

Insurance 18.75

Summer repairs 175.00

Crockery assessment 112.16

Sunday absences 336.00

Stock on hand March 1 2,086.74

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$14,416.88

Cr.

Stock on hand April 1 $1,927.77

Sale of bones 38.80

Sale of swill 40.75

Sale of grease 101.74

Sale of cold food, etc 64.58

Gas and coal for Theatre 18.57

Extra dishes ordered 809.75

Crockery charged to surplus 23.00

Balance 11,391.92

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$14,416.88

Dividing this balance of $11,391.92 by 2,804, the number of weeks, gives $406; adding head-money, .09, gives $4.15 as the cost of board per week during the month of March.