Mr. E. Peace, '83, is president of the Princeton Base-ball Association.

A series of "Historical Monographs," with a general introduction by E. A. Freeman, will soon be issued from Johns Hopkins University.

The Amherst correspondent of the Boston Journal gives Amherst a big boom in leaping - surpassing all records ever made; standing high jump 11 ft.

At the request of the Chinese government, five Chinese youths will be admitted next September to West Point, and five to Annapolis. All of them are of the rank of princes.

Two professors in the Champaign University of Illinois discovered a process for manufacturing sugar from sorghum and glucose from the seed. They patented their process, for which they lost their positions.

Princeton wants a $60,000 art building. It is understood that Dr. W. C. Prime is to give lectures in the school, and otherwise to take an active part in its management. Meanwhile Professor Allen Marquand is giving instruction in architecture to forty-two students.

Of special interest to freshmen - a $300 prize. The authorities of the Johns Hopkins University offer this valuable prize, open to the students of any college and to persons interested in mathematics, for the valid proof or disproof of this proposition: "A ground form and a syzygant of the same degree and order cannot appertain to the same binary quantity," The solution must be handed in before Jan 1, 1883.