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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Canada has forty colleges.

Hare and hounds have commenced at Yale.

The Boston base-ball club has disbanded for the season.

A new play by Tennyson, "The Promise of May," is just out.

It is estimated that Oxford has an income of considerably over $1,000,000 a year.

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A single subscription of $2000 was recently paid in to the Yale Athletic Association.

Miss Lizzie W. Champney, Vassar '69, has just published "Three Vassar Girls Abroad."

Yale is grumbling about the accommodations of her gymnasium, and wants them improved.

The faculty at Tufts College chooses the managing editor of the Tuftonian, the students' paper.

A Daniel Webster professorship in the Latin language has just been established at Dartmouth.

The lady students of Ann Arbor have determined to publish a paper, the Amulet, in the interest of co-education.

The Macmillans announce a prose translation of the "Iliad," by Andrew Lang, Ernest Myers and Walter Leaf.

The committee on discipline at Dartmouth consists of four seniors, three juniors, two sophomores and one freshman.

Professor Perry of Williams College is willing to accept a nomination for State Senator from the Northern Berkshire District of Massachusetts.

The Yale Glee Club give concerts during the Christmas vacation at Boston, Providence, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and possibly Wilkesbarre.

"Everyday Life at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Other Great Public Schools," by Charles Eyre Pascoe, has been recently published by E. P. Dutton & Co., New York.

A freshman by mistake recently shaved off one side of his moustache, and has been in the most distressing condition ever since because he cannot discover which side it was. - [Ex.

The Trinity College Glee Club has reorganized with seventeen members. Prof. H. W. Greene of New Haven has been chosen director. The club propose making a short Christmas vacation tour.

A daily paper will be published at Dartmouth College during the remainder of the term, the editors being A. A. Maxwell of South Berwick, Me.; A. E. Watson of Hartford, Vt.; A. P. Greeley of Concord, and Benjamin Phillips of Lynn, Mass., all of the senior class.

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