A recent bon mot of Professor Lowell is: "Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it."

The snow-storm yesterday was a reminder that winter is not yet over, and obliged the athletes and base-ball men to retire indoors again.

F. O. Millet's last lecture before the Society of Decorative Arts, New York, was on the subject of military and gladiatorial arms and costumes.

Prof. Merrill E. Gates has been appointed president of Rutger's College. He is the ninth president of the college, and is only thirty-three years old.

Mr. Bendelari has been absent in New York during this week, and his recitations in Italian 1, 2 and 3, Spanish 1 and French 5, have been suspended.

The Columbia College Boat Club of New York has received an acceptance of the challenge to Harvard to row an eight-oared race July 1 at New London.

The fifth and last of the present season's series of symphony concerts, under the auspices of the Harvard Musical Association, was given at the Boston Museum yesterday afternoon, under the direction of Mr. Carl Zerrahn, the soloist of the day being Herr Carl Baermann, pianist.

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.