Johns Hopkins University has a "Clifton Foot-ball Club."

Wesleyan female college, Cincinnati, is the "first college chartered for women in the world."

Scribner & Welford issue in a "Students' Edition" a reprint of Hobbes' "Leviathan."

Little Rock University, Kansas, is the latest infant born into the great American family of colleges.

The list of club rates for magazines and periodicals is ready at the office of the Co-operative Society.

We commend the article on foot-ball in Sunday's Boston Herald to the attention of our friends at Yale.

Princeton is making efforts to secure a preparatory school, a la Andover for Yale and Exeter for Harvard. - [Ex.

The race between '86 and the Columbia freshmen is to be on the Charles river, date to be hereafter agreed upon.

Dr. Seymour Haden, the eminent English artist, has during the past week been the guest of Prof. Wolcott Gibbs.

A Harvard student thus translates "Bonos corrumpunt mores congrassus mali:" "More bones of corruption in the Congressional mail." - [Ex.

Samuel Parker Lewis died very suddenly Sunday, Nov. 26. He was a graduate of Harvard University in the class of 1845, and also of the Harvard Law School.

The Harvard Directory has just appeared. It is dated October 16th, and its appearance at this late date, taken in connection with its prefatory notice, seems nothing less than a hollow mockery.

The senior class of Palatinate College, Pennsylvania, thirty in number, has withdrawn in a body - all on account of $5 demanded by the president for the use of the chapel for literary exercises by the class.

In accordance with numerous requests, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes' farewell address is to be printed in full, and it will appear in this week's issue of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, revised by Dr. Holmes himself.

In the new buildings of Boston University two large rooms have been fitted up - one for a gentlemen's, the other for a ladies' gymnasium. Dr. Sargent has planned and had charge of the arrangements for both.

Conversation overheard at Saturday's game. Harvard spectator to Yale supporter : "So I see you Yale men didn't play such a muckerish game with Princeton as you did with Harvard." - Yale S. (ingenuously) "No, it was too slippery!" (Fact.)

The following-named members of the class of '86, having been made honorary members of the Longfellow Memorial Association, are appointed a committee to receive membership subscriptions from the freshman class : J. D. Bradley (chairman), Wendell Baker, C. C. Burnett, T. H. Cabot, E. D. Codman, R. H. Delafield, A. P. Gardner, C. Guild, George L. Peabody and R. D. Smith, Jr.

True story from the Annex. - Prof. Pickering to young lady student of astronomy : "I should be very happy to have you present at the observatory next Wednesday evening, Miss X., so that I can show you some important observations." Miss X. : "I am sorry, professor, that I cannot come that evening, as I have a previous engagement. I hope, however, you won't put it off on my account!" (The important observations are those of the transit of Venus, which occurs Wednesday evening, nolens volens!)