Prof. William Cook will read "Faust" today in German 6.

No freshmen have yet joined the Harvard Total Abstinence League.

A backwoods exchange credits Harvard with 275 students and Yale with 500!

The Hasty Pudding Club has decided to give theatricals in aid of the boat club.

The Co-operative Society has issued a new style of examination book with dark brown covers.

Dr. Young will be unable to meet his sections in History 6 and 8 and Roman Law 1 again before the examinations.

The Pierian Sodality gave a very fine concert at Andover, January 12th. Why not get them up here? - [Exonian.

The Yale crew, with several substitutes, are now working systematically. The stroke of last year will probably be adopted.

Negotiations are in progress at the Madison Square Theatre for securing Mr. George Riddle as a member for the season of 1883.

The recommendations adopted by the Yale Graduate Advisory Committee were identical with those made by Capt. Hull of the Yale crew.

At the request of several of the students Dr. Laughlin has consented to postpone his lecture upon "The Sub-Treasury System" until sometime after the semis.

James Robinson, formerly trainer at Harvard, arrived in Boston from London last Friday evening. He is here on business connected with the shipping of cattle. He will return to England shortly, but expects to be back in Boston next March, and will probably train amateurs at Beacon Park.

Students at Harvard printed a circular purporting to be issued by a "Society for the Reform of the Social Habits of Foreigners," and aimed especially at the consumption of Limberger cheese and sour-kraut. The circular fell into the hands of European journalists and was gravely and severely commented on by them. - [Harper's Weekly.

Peace of Princeton, captain of last year's foot-ball team, and who it was rumored was to enter the Harvard Law School, is president of the Princeton Base-Ball Association this year.

The following story is told : Prof. Park, of Andover, meeting Joseph Cook recently, said to him : "You went to school at Phillips Academy, and now you are more talked about than any of its teachers; you went to Yale, and you are more talked about than any of the Yale faculty; you came to our theological seminary, and you are more talked about than any of us; you lectured at Harvard, and are more talked about than any Professor at Harvard." Cook replied calmly : "So was Guiteau!"

A recent criticism of Salvini's "Lear" says : "Despite the classic elegance of Salvini's acting and the perfect pathos of his whole representation of the tottering, grand old king, dozens of people came away feeling no more kinship with the woes of "Lear" than they would with some fate-driven hero of Greek drama. In fact, many admitted this parallel, and spoke of feeling something akin to the remote admiration that they felt for the OEdipus of Mr. Riddle when first presented to them at Cambridge, a few seasons ago.

In Dr. G. Stanley Hall's last lecture on "Pedagogy," the prevalent system of crowding the mind of the scholar and college student with a mass of ideas for the special purpose of passing an examination was condemned as being hurtful, not only to the mind but also to the body; and the changing of the time of holding the examinations to the winter months, when the mind is active, was favored, instead of having them in the spring when the nervous system in many instances is practically prostrated.