It was feared that this was a Nihilistic plot for the destruction of the Faculty, but as nothing noteworthy came of the announcement, the fears of the College public were at length quieted.

THE Johns Hopkins University has 142 students.

WE play Columbia at Cambridge on the 9th of November.

THE launch which was built for Yale last year at a cost of $2,300 has proved a failure.

AT Amherst, students who attend nine tenths of the recitations need not try the examinations.

JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO. are about to issue a "large-paper edition" of their American Actor Series.

EXAMINATIONS in Analytic Geometry for those who were absent from the final last June were held this morning.

ONE hundred copies of Osgood's fine edition of Etchings will be exquisitely printed on China paper by the University Press.

OUR football game with Yale takes place the 12th of November, at New Haven. We hope that we shall be able to present our strongest team.

THOSE who subscribe for the Crimson after buying the first or second numbers can have their money refunded at Sever's, at the time of subscribing.

THE last Columbia Spectator, in an editorial, advises Columbia to confine her attention to the formation of an eight, in order, if possible, to defeat Harvard.

PACH has issued photographs of the late President and of Francklyn cottage, both of which are remarkably good, the President having expressed his satisfaction with the former.

As our Joe seated himself at the piano, he knocked over a vase that stood upon it. "Playing a knocked urn?" asked one of the company. "No," said Joe, "that is only a jar gone." - Ex.

THE Globe of the 21st instant contained a very well-written article, "Muscle and Brains," upon the excellent service Dr. Sargent is rendering the University in his wise management of the Gymnasium.