Banjos are in demand at Vassar.
The plans for the new law school will be finished in about one month.
Our new postman was delivering the Thayer mail in University yesterday.
A concert by the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality will probably be given in May.
There will be an examination in Freshman Physics soon after the semi-annals.
It looks at present as though Yale might be left without any pitcher for the coming season. [New Haven Union.
Soule & Bugbee, publishers of Prof. Ames' "Cases on the Law of Bills," have recently opened a new law book-store, opposite the court house in Boston.
In the February Harper's a story of aesthetic London, entitled "Prudence," is begun. It is written by Mrs. John Lillie, and will contain illustrations by Du Maurier.
Smith, Elder & Co. (London) are publishing a limited edition de luxe of Fielding's works, in ten volumes 8vo., by subscription only. They are edited by Leslie Stephen.
Mr. John Robinson of the Arnold Arboretum has published his paper on "Ornamental Trees for Massachusetts Plantation," read last year before the State Board of Agriculture.
Within the past week, the freshmen have shown much more interest than before in the support of their nine, and the probability is that '85 will not be much behind the other classes in its pecuniary support.
An annotated French edition of "Aeschylus," well printed in 231 pages and bound, costs only one franc (about twenty cents) in Paris. Now how much would an unbound, poorly printed edition cost at a certain book-store in Cambridge?
The men now in training for the Yale University crew are Hull, '83, Folsom, '83, Guernsey, L. S., Bourne, '83, Hyndman, '84, Parrott, '83, Vernon, '83, Williams, '82 S. S. S., Cutler, '85, Hobbs, '85, Schultz. '82, Flanders, '84.
A new postman was on Billy's route yesterday, and considerable delay in the delivery was occasioned by his inexperience. We hope that Billy will soon deliver the college mail again and thus insure the correct and speedy delivery of our mail.
Among the noticeable articles in the February Century are a poem by Longfellow, a new essay by Emerson, and a paper by the late Dean Stanley. It also contains Mrs. Burnett's new play, "Esmeralda," soon to be produced at the New York Madison Square Theatre.
We have read Oscar Wilde's poems, and we feel as if we had spent the day in a boudoir furnished with daisies and cat-tails in Kensington, alternately looking at one of Titian's Venuses and poring over the Song of Solomon and the Lamentation of Ezekiel. - [Vassar Mis.
The following-named class day officers have been elected by the seniors at Yale: Senior promenade - Darling, Dillingham, Griggs, McMillan, Parsons, Rice, Richardson, Rutledge, Shoemaker; supper committee - Brinton, Gallaher, Jefferds, Lay, Snell, Vought; class cup committee - Beach, Platt, Pollock; class secretary - Osborn; ivy committee - Churchill, Fries and Morris.
Ex-Secretary Blaine's spirited exploit in the Panama canal affair, says the Nation, "resembles the quarrel and separation of the young couple, immediately after the birth of their first boy, over the question as to whether he should go to Yale or Harvard." The canal is not yet dug!
Is that a man? No! that is not a man, that is an aesthete. What has he in his hand? He has a lily in his hand. Will the lily die? Yes, the lily will. Poor lily! Why does he look so wild at the horse-car? Of course he looks wild at the horse-car, for he is Oscar Wilde. - [News Primer.
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