Hannibal Hamlin spoke to college students in Maine recently, strongly advising them to practice extemporaneous speaking. He thinks the value of this acquirement in a public man cannot be over-estimated.

It is not so very long since the Vassar students were publicly forbidden to kiss the professors' children, because not only the tempers but the features of said "infants" were endangered. Imagine the "temper" of anyone not a professor's child on being subjected to such an indignity!

A new departure has recently been made at Johns Hopkins, which consists in establishing several courses of lectures by professors and students on subjects with which they are especially familiar. Two such courses are now in progress - one on physiology and the other on chemistry.

A Yale man, who was a guest at Memorial one day last term, when he heard of the many complaints against the fare, declared that it was fully as good as Yale students got at New Haven. "In either case," he said, "the meat could be chewed, and the bottom of a cup of the rather weak coffee was not actually visible to the naked eye."

"If one college's jealousy of another is allowed to take root, then the new Intercollegiate Rowing Association may as well disband now, as it would inevitably do in the near future," says the News. "It seems difficult enough," it continues despondingly, "to arrange the preliminaries of a race in which only two are concerned, and it will of course be proportionately more difficult for six contestants to agree."

"IT ARE DISAPPOINTED."The new Reading Room Association at Harvard are greatly disappointed at the "lack of appreciation on the part of the college in general." Can it be that the Harvard student has neither time nor inclination to read current literature? Perhaps interest in athletics is reviving once more. - [News.