The Dartmouth nine will go into training in a few days.

Concert of the Yale Glee Club this evening at New Haven.

The appointments to Phi Beta Kappa have been made at Amherst.

The juniors' promenade at Yale will take place tomorrow evening.

A Greek play, sabled, is promised at a New York minstrel theatre.

Several sophomores at Yale recently received marks for throwing snow-balls.

A petition has been started to have the examination in Philosophy I. postponed until midyears are over.

It is reported that the Greek play has proved a successful venture, and that the managers will realize a handsome profit.

A party of Williams students made so much noise at an entertainment recently that the police had to be called in.

The men of the elective in English 2 were given three hours and a half for their examination last Saturday. They had need of the time.

About thirty students from the Institute of Technology are on a five days' trip through the leading machine shops of Massachusetts and Connecticut.

The Jefferson public school building, the finest school in Washington, was burned Saturday morning. The building accommodated 1600 pupils. Loss, over $100,000.

FURNITURE. Parlor, Chamber, Dining-room, Library and Office Furniture. An immense stock in the warerooms of PAINE'S manufactory, 48 Canal street, opposite Boston & Maine depot.

This evening the members of the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium will give a competitive exhibition of calisthenics. Six silver goblets will be offered as prizes. Prof. Roberts, assisted by several experts, will give an exposition of fancy gymnastics.

There was a young fellow named Wilde,

Whose manner was yearning and mild.

He sailed o'er the ocean

Which raised no commotion

On account of this tender young child.

The freshmen's banquet at Ithica, N. Y., took place Friday evening. The sophomores threw a few bottles, with a chemical compound therein, at the windows, and made a great deal of noise, but they finally withdrew. The two kidnapped freshmen were not released until Saturday morning.

There are about 150 college journals of various kinds published in this country. Yale heads the list with three annuals, one monthly, two bi-weeklies, one daily and two or three occasionals. - [News.] Harvard has three bi-weeklies, - the Crimson, Advocate and Lampoon, - two dailies, one annual, - the Index, - besides the Calendar, published weekly, and the University Bulletin.

A dyspeptic contemporary satirically says that Mary Anderson, in Galatea, "during a considerable portion of her time on the stage, appears as a statue, and as a statue she is without a rival. . . . When the final moment comes. Miss Anderson mounts the pedestal with dignity and self-possession, much as she might if she were going to have a photograph taken."

The Post, yesterday, spoke editorially of "the disturbance made by a lot of immature, conceited, cubbish, bumptious, and obstreperous boys and young men" at Oscar's lecture. The Post added that the demonstrations of the Yale men toward Oscar were "much more coarse and offensive in their demonstrations than were the young men who tried to take a benefit in Music Hall."

General Daniel Pratt, G. A. T., was in readiness Friday evening, according to announcement, to lecture at 581 Washington street, on "AEstheticism," viewed from his standpoint, but the audience was wanting, and the general, after waiting some time for a gathering of respectable size, departed in disgust.

One of the buildings of the St. Francis College, Richmond, Que., occupied by the art, classic and German department, 250 feet long and five stories high, was burned Saturday morning. Nothing but the walls remain. The occupants barely escaped with their lives. Loss, $15,000. Several valuable libraries were also burned.