Lampoon out today.
There are but 382 boarders now at Memorial.
There was a cut in Freshman German yesterday.
A correspondent speaks of Harvard as an "AEsthetic Manufactory."
Mr. M. H. Clark, '83, is at home, suffering from an attack of malarial fever.
Mr. Livingston has resigned the position of captain on the freshman tug of war team.
The banquet of the Northwestern Graduate Association of the A. Delta. Phi. was held in Chicago Tuesday evening.
Capt. Dean of the senior crew came back yesterday. He has been suffering from a severe attack of lung fever.
Oscar is reported as complaining that there are no ruins in America. Oscar has evidently not seen the Yale Record.
Prof. Mommsen is restoring his library and collections in ancient history. He is about to go to Italy to search for inscriptions.
Snodkins claims that he is a mailed knight - it requires so many stamps to carry him through. Second-class matter, perhaps.
The University of St. Petersburg is to have a new astronomical observatory; and a new professorship has been created for its director.
The Hartford High School, burned January 24, is to be rebuilt. Many graduates of this school have entered Harvard as well as Yale.
The board of trustees have determined to establish a mechanical department in Girard College. Five thousand dollars have been appropriated for a beginning.
A horse with an empty sleigh ran away last evening from in front of Memorial just before the concert began. No one was injured, but the sleigh was badly damaged.
Yesterday afternoon the Yale sophomores gave their class German; the juniors theirs at the same place in the evening. The senior German took place in the Athenaeum, and one was given also by the Cloister men. It appears that the athletic Yalensians have become devotees of Terhsichore.
The students and townsmen of Oberlin have subscribed over $200,000 towards the temperance reform, now in progress at that place. A resolution was adopted, petitioning the legislature to grant to college towns the right to restrict the sale of intoxicating liquors, and also disclaiming all purpose to use violence.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has just decided, in the case of the professor in mathematics in Lewisburg University vs. the corporation, that a college professor is not an officer, but merely an employee of the institution he serves, and, therefore, can be dismissed with no formality of presentment and proving of charges.
The conductor of the night car between Cambridge and Boston will be richer one year from now than he is today. The reason is this : About one week ago a passenger lost a pocket-book containing five hundred dollars, and inside the pocket-book was a card bearing the owner's name. The conductor found it and restored it to the owner. The owner did not reward him with the name of his address, but went with him the next morning and deposited the five hundred dollars in a Boston Savings Bank, subject to the conductor's order, one year from the day of deposit. The loser of the funds was the father of a Harvard student.
FURNITURE. Parlor, chamber, dining-room, library and office furniture. An immense stock in the warerooms of PAINE'S manufactory, 48 Canal street, opposite Boston and Maine depot.
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