There are 118 theological schools in this country.

There will be an hour examination in German I. next Saturday.

The Pierian-Glee Club concert will probably be given Dec. 11.

Prof. Max Muller, of Oxford University, is an accomplished tricycle rider.

Prof. Palmer will read the third book of the Odyssey in Sever 11 this evening at half-past seven.

The lady students of Girton College, Cambridge, England, publish a college paper, the Girton Review.

The place of Hammond, who was injured in Saturday's game, has been supplied this week by Clark.

Joseph B. Lippincott has contributed $10,000 to the veterinary school proposed to be annexed to the University of Pennsylvania.

The college of the city of New York has a "Winter Sports Society" devoted to the encouragement of sleigh-rider, skating parties, etc.

The second annual ball of the Memorial Hall waiters will occur Dec. 6, at Paine Hall. A minstrel performance will open the evening's entertainment.

There will be a meeting of the alumni of the class of '82, Phillips-Exeter Academy, on the 27th, at 7.30 o'clock, in 24 Holyoke, to take action relative to a class reunion at Exeter next June.

Mr. C. C. Shaffer, who announces himself as having been professor in the University of Pennsylvania, proposes to teach the people of Boston how to ac quire foreign languages. He promises "complete courses of one week each in German, Latin, Greek and French." He offers the French verb on the back of a postage stamp.

At the meeting of the faculty Monday evening the special order of business was the consideration of the petition for the extension of the Thanksgiving recess. By a very decided majority it was voted not to grant it, and furthermore to restrict the recess to one day (this year Thursday, Nov. 30). This will probably in future years also be the length of the recess.