"The truth well stuck to is as good as a lie," says Life.

A large number of freshmen at Yale are in training for the winter meetings.

The number of speakers at the Yale junior exhibition has been reduced from ten to eight.

A history of college journalism is shortly to be published. It is edited by John F. McClure.

The third number of Life is out. It contains sketches by Attwood, Mitchell, McVickar and Kendrick.

Mr. Mason Young, a member of the Yale corporation, has published a reply to Dr. Crosby in the New York Evening Post.

The Yale News of January 18 contains an account of the formation of the Inter-collegiate Rowing Association, which took place December 28, just three weeks before.

In England's forthcoming Royal College of Music, Mme. Jenny Lind has offered unconditionally to teach a number of free pupils, placing at the manager's disposal several hours per day which she is willing to devote to the task.

The Tufts College catalogue for 1882-83 gives a total of 94 students, a gain of 16 over that of last year, divided as follows: Seniors, 14; juniors, 16; sophomores, 18; freshmen, 19; Divinity School, 19; candidates for the degree of A. M., 8.

The Rev. A. S. Palmer, the author of the "Folk-Etymology," has undertaken the editorship of the "Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases Adopted into English," for the preparation of which the late Mr. Stanford left a bequest of $25,000 to the University of Oxford.

The following item from the Yale News needs no comment: "At the end of last term two members of '85, bent upon a night's work at compositions, desiring something in the way of stimulants, provided themselves with two bottles of ginger ale. They were found naturally in a well-nigh exhausted state the following morning."

Albert Victor, son of the Prince of Wales, is now to be educated at Christ Church, Oxford. Like his uncle, Prince Leopold, he will wear cap and gown only on occasions where they are required by law, and even then he will discard the gold tassel on the cap and silk gown of the cut that distinguishes, or rather used to distinguish, the gentleman-commoner from the nobleman.