Opening of the three days' convention of Alpha Delta Phi in New York today.

There is a course in short-hand at Iowa University. It is taken by seventy students.

It is said that Bradford Academy for young women has four tennis clubs, two base-ball nines and a boat club.

Specimen Yale Joke (from the News' supplement):

"(Stopping at the New Haven House on their wedding trip from the West.)

Dear George - 'What can be the meaning of this continual crying on the streets - Register-Union?'

Loving Lotta - 'I don't know; but it need not disturb us, dear, for didn't I with my own eyes see you register our union?' "

Number 3 of the first volume of Yale's new paper, the Critic, impressed us rather favorably at first glance. After reading the editorial column we thought that the Critic was designed to be a sort of a Nation among college papers - a field entirely unoccupied in college journalism. And this in our opinion is what it should be. The Critic, - with the exception of the first column, which is written in an admirable style, - contains but three or four subjects, all of which have been handled from time immemorial by other college papers. If the Critic wishes to be a success, and occupy a field entirely its own, let it have more of its short and caustic editorials, and less of long and dry articles on worn-out subjects.