AN herbarium building has been added to the botanical department of the College, to be used as a fire-proof library for all the botanical works, except those used in the laboratory.

MR. RIDDLE'S students in elocution are reminded that the subscription which is being raised to heat Sanders Theatre requires less money than is expended in other courses for text-books.

THE bath-rooms of the Gymnasium contain five bath-tubs, fourteen sponge-baths, and sixteen washbasins of white marble, with hot and cold water. Besides the ordinary shower-baths, there are two spray-baths.

THE officers of the Pi Eta Society for the first half year are: President, W. H. Folsom; Vice-president, A. W. Roberts; Secretary, J. C. Rolfe; Treasurer, H. B. Howard; Chorister, H. W. Chase; Stage Manager, C. M. Hemenway.

Bashful Tutor (calling up a gentleman of his acquaintance). - Mr. X., will you please translate?

Mr. X. - Not prepared.

B. T. - Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. Mr. Y., will you go on?

PROFESSOR KO KUN HUA has presented to the Library a volume of his own poetry, entitled "Verses composed in the Hall of Longevity." The volume is a small octavo, printed privately at Ningpo, in 1879, and is unaccompanied by a translation.

OXFORD has a Rifle Corps, and this Rifle Corps has had an exciting skirmish with muckers in the town. If the H. R. C. had done something of this kind, it would have at least made itself useful, and perhaps might have become a more popular institution.

FROM the report of Frederic W. Putnam, Curator of the Peabody Museum, it is learned that "during no preceding year have the operations of the Museum been so extended, nor have larger returns ever been received from explorations conducted under its directions."

ACCORDING to Mr. Gladstone's recent Rectorial Address to the students of Glasgow, of 590 students in Arts, or the Humanity Classes, 199 are independent of any avocation that has to be pursued concurrently with their studies; 391 have to work for their living even while they study for their education. Of these last, 240 work both during the winter season and throughout the summer; 135 work in summer only; while 16 join a business to their winter work as students.

MUSIC RECEIVED FROM OLIVER DITSON & CO.

Songs: Margaret's Cradle Song, Grieg; Sunset on the River and Safe Home at Last, Pinsuti; My Love she is a Kitten, Collier; I would I were a King, Fair Maid, Arthur Sullivan; Around the World with Grant (song with chorus), Thompson; Wandering back to the Old Home (with chorus), Gleason. Piano Music; Le Chant du Coeur, Sudds; The Mill Wheel, Boyton Smith; Polka, op. 212, Carl Faust; Heart Memories, Jungmann; Spring Flower Waltz, Himau; In Dusky Dale (four hands), Merkel.

ONLY seventy-five of the two hundred Freshmen at Yale entered without conditions.

FIFTY members of Yale's Freshman class are from Connecticut, forty-six from New York, and eighteen from Pennsylvania.