Reception to members of the Law School at President Eliot's this evening.

The winter meetings of the Yale Athletic Association will take place March 1 and 4.

Nearly four thousand pamphlets from the Cornell library have been sent to England to be bound.

The Bowdoin Orient is "glad to see the infusion of Harvard blood into the faculty" of that college.

Firewood must be scarce at Bowdoin; several trees in the campus have been cut down to supply the demand.

Princeton and Cornell furnish the annual college scandals. The two toos - too much religion and too little. - [Era.

Professor - "Do you know what the sternum is?" Student - "It's the bone the tail feathers grow out of." Class all have the colic.

There will be a meeting of the American Base Ball Association at Springfield the first Friday in March, at 12 P. M. There will be two representatives from each college.

The Cornell juniors and sophomores have passed resolutions recognizing the right of the freshmen to hold banquets, and discouraging any further attempts at disturbing the peace.

Trinity College, Dublin, has an annual income of over $250,000. Her fellowships are worth five and six thousand dollars a year; and the salary of her provost is about $20,000.

The first instalment of Notes in Chemistry I., for the second half year, may be obtained at 13 Thayer on Friday, Feb. 17, from 10 to 12 A. M. or from 7 to 8 P. M. Subscription price, $3.

Cornell is in trouble again. A fracas between thirty students and a policeman occurred last Saturday, in which the policeman was nearly killed. Two students were captured and bail furnished.

Prof. Waldo of Yale is having a valuable heliometer constructed in Europe by Repsold of Hamburg. It will arrive here probably in March, and will probably be the only instrument of the kind in America.

Three students at Williston Seminary at Easthampton have been suspended for hazing another student, and the two upper classes refuse to attend recitations till the suspended students are reinstated. The faculty are firm.

There is to be a German conference in Sever 4 at 7.30 this evening. The subject will be "The Parthenon at Rome." None but students are invited. These conferences are very entertaining, and afford an excellent opportunity for German students to acquire fluency in speaking.

The annual reunion of the English High School Association takes place on next Monday evening, at the new English High and Latin School building. The committee of arrangements is composed of the representative men of the various classes, and everything will be done to make the occasion a complete success.

The sixteenth annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York will take place at Delmonico's, Fifth avenue and Twenty-sixth street, on Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 6.30 P. M. All Harvard men from any quarter, whether members of the club or not, are cordially invited. The price of tickets for the dinner, including wine, is six dollars. The club, as usual, pays the additional cost of the dinner. It is desirable that the committee should promptly receive notice from those intending to be present.

FURNITURE. Parlor, chamber, dining-room, library and office furniture. An immense stock in the warerooms of PAINF'S manufactory, 48 Canal street, opposite Boston and Maine depot.