The Index is finding a ready sale.

A great many men started for home yesterday.

Williams has not, but earnestly desires to have, a bicycle club.

The Christmas recess begins today and ends Wednesday, Jan. 2nd.

Six students at Columbia have elected Sanscript this year.

A dramatic association is under consideration at Princeton.

Kansas has a newspaper called the Free Trader devoted to that cause.

A third of the students of Colby University spend the winter vacation in teaching.

Dr. Peabody has an article on the "Study of Greek" in the January Atlantic.

Matthew Arnold is expected to lecture about Feb. 1 before Michigan University.

It is said that only three Freshman were able to pass the entrance Greek at Cornell.

"Undergraduate Life at Oxford" is the title of an article in the January Lippincott's.

The number of colleges and universities in the United States increases on an average of fifteen every year.

Hendee, the champion bicycle rider. has won prizes the past two years to the amount of two thousand dollars.

It is rumored that Mr. Henschel and Mr. Howells are engaged in writing a comic opera.

The chapel choir at Williams receives a regular salary, has rehearsals and renders chapel exercises attractive by good music.

The A. U. V. society of Amherst College held a dinner Friday evening at Young's Hotel.

The annual report of Prof. Pickering of the observatory has been published. It is rather long but interesting. reviewing in detail the doings of the year.

At a recent sale of autographs in Paris, 1,430 f. was paid for a bundle of letters of Rouget de Lisle ; a letter of Darwin's brought 55 f. ; of Schiller, 100 f. ; Wagner, 100 f. ; George Sand, 120 f. ; Paganini, 50 f. ; Beranger, 49 f. ; and Gambetta, 35 f.

Yale must have a remarkable Glee Club this year. at their concert in Meriden, the News states that "Fatinitza" was received "with thunders of applause," while "George Washington" was rendered so ably that "the audience fairly went to pieces." Rah !

Fifty alumni of Hamilton College were present at their annual dinner, which took place Thursday evening at the Union Square Hotel in New York. Speeches were made by President Darling, ex-Governor Walker, Prof. Chester and others.

The Committee on Athleties informed the directors of the Foot-ball Association that the Trustees have been seriously considering the advisability of abolishing intercollegiate athletics in Princeton, and have been dissuaded from doing so only at the request of the Faculty. [Ex.

Students of Fine Arts 3, are familiar with the work on Egyptian art by Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez, which was published last year. A new work by the same authors on "The History of Art in Chaldea and Assyria," will be ready in few days. It will contain over five hundred illustrations and comprise two volumes, the style being uniform with that of last year's volumes on Egypt.

The "Academie de la Langue Francaise des Etats Unis" has been organized in Boston to protect the purity of the French language and the work of good teachers of French. The teachers who have formed the organization have decided to exert their best endeavors to check the abuses which have crept into the teaching of French, which has of late often been intrusted to individuals of foreign nationalities who do not scruple to represent themselves as professors of a language whose very rudiments are unknown to them.