The Detroits have written to arrange games with the nine for the 1st and 5th of June at New Bedford. The nine will not be able to play them on those dates.

The H. P. C. will produce the play "Dido and Aeneas," by Owen Wister, at their theatricals. There is some talk of giving the play two nights in Philadelphia.

We received yesterday No. 1 of the Yale Critic. It contains a very good article on "Oratory at Yale," and a number of advertisements which showed much deep thought and editorial ability.

Prof. Smith distributed yesterday morning to the members of the section in Latin 1 a chronological table of the events in the life of Agricola. This table will be of considerable interest to the members of the class, as they are at present reading the life of Agricola by Tacitus.

This is how the Spirit of the Times speaks of the matter: "Yale and Harvard are having the customary quarrel over their annual eight-oared race. This time it is about the date. As the difference is only one day, it would seem to be a matter quite capable of adjustment without bloodshed."

The latest from Oberlin is that by decree of the faculty the dangerous experiment of a chess club - think of it, a chess club - about to be started there, has been nipped in the bud. What with corner drug-stores, chess clubs and the like, the way of virtue at Oberlin is truly a hard one.

The students at Bowdoin are becoming frivolous and frolicsome. We learn from the Orient that last Friday morning it was discovered that the seats in several recitation rooms had been decorated with a fresh coat of black paint. Quite a number of the classes were adjourned, on account of the artistic efforts of a few unsalted.

Princeton College Cricket Club has organized for the season and the following-named officers have been elected: Captain, John B. Shober; directors, John Jay Archer of Baltimore, Richard Norris and Henry Grier Bryant of Philadelphia. Matches have been arranged with the Trenton, Newark, and Chestnut Hill clubs, and with Trinity, Columbia and Harvard colleges and the University of Pennsylvania.

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