A work entitled "The History of Prussia to the Accession of Frederick the Great," by Professor Her bert Tuttle, of Cornell, will be issued this week.

In the German universities there are 5,426 law students, and 6,172 medical students, while the department of philosophy, including literature mathematics, and the sciences, contains 9, 117.

That hare and hounds is a favorite game in the eastern colleges, may be seen by the interest taken in it at Harvard, where there are one hundred and twenty-five men in the H. A. H. club. [Badger.

Professor Norton yesterday offered those students who take Fine Arts III an opportunity to substitute a theme of not more than ten pages of a "blue book" on any subject connected with the course, as a part of the mid-year examinations.

Prof. Bell, the electrician, is reported as saying in a recent conversation that there are more than 500,000 telephones in use in the United States, and the manufacturers are unable to supply the demand so as to keep abreast of orders.

One of the subjects for the next theme in English 5 is the adversibility of compelling members of Congress to reside in the districts which they represent. This question, it will be remembered, was discussed by Hon. Mr. Bryce in one of his lectures in Sanders Theatre a few days ago.

The college reading room occupying the reading room in the old law school building, up stairs, north front, will be open to subscribers tomorrow. A considerable list of periodicals and news papers will then be on file, which will be increased as soon as arrangements can be made and as soon as subscriptions now in arrears are paid up. The room is not open evenings for the present, but will be if enough subscriptions are received to pay the extra cost of lighting.