The friends of University College, Liverpool, recently raised by subscription the sum of pound105,000, the city council contributing pound30,000, for the purpose of increasing their endowment and securing a new building.

The Dartmouth speaks of the habit of punning as "paranourasia" and says : "The inveterate punster soon comes to regard words as mere symbols on which he is to strike the tinkling changes of his word-music; he takes all the beauty out of Homer's "winged words" by making them shuttlecocks which he is to bandy back and forth at the mere catch of sounds."

Of the noted scholars and professors of England of today Oxford has Max Muller, George Rawlinson, Benj. Jewett and J. C. Shairp; Cambridge, Professors Seeley and Fawcett; the University of London has Professors Ward, Henry Morley, Schmitz, Lankester, Bobertson and Thorold Rogers. In Scotland, Alex. Bain, Principal Tulloch, Peter Baynes and David Mason; and Dowden, the Shakesperean scholar, is at Dublin.

The spirit of association in clubs and societies is carried to great lengths these days. Among the curious organizations of London are the Additional Curates' Society, the Epidemiological Society, the Mendicity Society and the Royal Female Naval School. Perhaps the suggestion in this last name for providing useful employment for the royal princesses might be well utilized. The artists have a club called the Mauls, and the lawyers are called the Devil's Own. A contemporary expresses the wish that the devil may get his own at the earliest convenient opportunity.

The following considerate words by Dr. Wm. Pepper of the University of Pennsylvania, are commended to the attention of freshmen : "Few appreciate the strain that even two or three hours' attendance daily, and the effort to master two or three simple lessons, exert on the sensitive organizations of young children. Their brain and nerves are exquisitely delicate, and it is a period of such rapid growth that the power of nutrition is taxed to supply material for the formation of perfect tissue." And we might add that the nutrition to be had at Memorial is hardly suited for the delicate brains and nerves of freshmen, either.