There is undoubtedly a reaction setting in against the excessive fostering of athletics. President Eliot has sounded the esoteric note, and now Dr. Crosby has taken up the cry; and we may be assured that, coming from such a man, it is but the signal for an attack all along the line. - [Cornell Sun.

Base-running is now the special qualification looked for by many club managers seeking to make up strong teams. Selecting a team according to batting averages is played out. The success of the Chicago team in 1882 was largely due to their good base-running and fielding. [Ex.

The council of the University of St. Petersburg has decided to expel 46 students who were the chief actors in the late disturbances. Their parents have been placed under police supervision. Twenty-three others have been expelled from the university with the understanding that they will be re-admitted if repentant.

"The time is not far distant when it shall be as much among the curiosities of history that one sex should ever have been debarred from the educational privileges accorded to the other, as it will be that the curse of slavery should have continued to darken the escutcheon of our Republic for a century after its foundation." - [President Barnard.

The following "whopper" comes to us by way of Yale: "Mr. Paul Tulane, of Princeton, N. J., has given $2,000,000 worth of property for the endowment of a college at New Orleans. In addition he has donated $400,000 to Harvard, $3,000,000 to Cornell, $2,000,000 to Boston University, and a number of sums ranging from $100,000 to half a million, to other institutions." - [Ex.