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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Lacrosse on ice is the latest at Yale.

Sever 13 was very cold yesterday during the lecture in History XII. The attention of the janitor is called to this fact.

In two years the wealth of Cornell university has increased nearly $3,000,000. It is now richer than Harvard.-[Ex.

The last number of the Wisconsin Journal of Education contains President Eliot's article on "The Teachers' Conscience."

Columbia now declares Yale to be her own true love, all others having proved false-the gentle Bottom of New Haven alone remaining true.

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It is reported on good authority that the Amherst faculty have forbidden their students from engaging in intercollegiate athletic contests.

The Willistonian is informed that at the recent football convention a very satisfactory scheme to prevent the "blast" game was presented and adopted.

"Inquirer."-No; you are misinformed; the Yale News is not the daily edition of Zion's Herald, although your mistake is natural under the circumstances.

At a meeting of the class of '86, Columbia, Dec. 8, it was voted unanimously to accept the challenge of the Harvard freshmen for a two-mile, straight-a-way eight-oared race.

The Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, as executor, has recently paid over to the treasurer of Harvard College $111,000, the major part of a testamentary bequest to the college by the late George B. Dorr of Boston.

The students of Phillips Exeter Academy are desirous of receiving diplomas at graduation, as students of the other preparatory schools do, and ask that the trustees consider the matter at their next meeting.

Cornell is probably the richest college in the country, excepting perhaps Columbia. The wealth of Cornell is nearly eight million dollars, "but," says the Boston Post, "it is an exceptional institution if it doesn't still want more."

The Boston Herald wants the tariff commission to "call upon Prof. Wolcott Gibbs and Prof. J. P. Cooke to show how the apparently insignificant tax on chemicals retards the progress of this country in almost every direction."

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