Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., instructor in the Law School, has just been appointed to the Supreme Bench of Massachusetts by Gov. Long.

The estimated cost of the forthcoming Science for the first year is upwards of $40,000, of which the receipts are expected to furnish $20,000, the net loss of $20,000 being considered merely a contribution to science in America, in the same manner that an endowment might be made to Harvard University for a professorship in some deparment of science. - [Ex.

Yale students were permitted to view the transit through the college telescope.

Lacrosse will soon be the required study in Eastern colleges. Foot-ball, base-ball and boating are elective. - [Ex.

Harvard will indulge in a Physical Laboratory costing $115,000. This is not intended to furnish physical training for the boat crews. - [Ex.

The concerts to be given by the Mueller-Campanari String Quartette are in their plan to be modelled after those given in Berlin by the Joachim Quartette.

Some of the faculty at Yale reserve the right of marking lower than zero, by means of minus signs, when the ignorance exhibited by the student is too abysmal. - [Ex.

The London Daily News understands that one of the masters of Eaton has been required by the head master to suppress his book entitled "Notes of a Tour in Ireland," on pain of dismissal from his position.

Over 100 students have left Madison University at Hamilton, N. Y., owing to the prevalence of diphtheria. Two students have died, and six more are sick, while the disease appears to be spreading in the village.

The executive committee of the Boat Club has made the following decision with regard to scientific men: "That all such men who attend prayers and are otherwise governed by the regulations of the college faculty, may row in the class boats, provided they commence to row in the freshman crew during their first year in college. Unless they thus commence to row they will not be allowed in the class boats at all.