Professor D. A. Sargent of Harvard, who is doing so much for the physical education of this generation of students, younger and older, in his "Health and Strength Paper," has timely counsel about measuring one's strength with that of others. - [Advertiser.
An unexpected ending to a college prank was the arrest, on charge of theft, of five sophomores in Wisconsin University, who had run away with a supper prepared for some of the freshmen.
C. T. Dazey, a recent graduate of Harvard, author of James O'Neill's "American King," is writing a new play to order for Louis Aldrich. The piece will not be done for two seasons yet.
Mr. F. W. Taussig delivers his second lecture on the "History of Tariff Legislation" in Sever 11 at 7.30 P. M. today. His lecture will be on the American system as developed in 1820-1832.
"The Astronomical Observatory here," writes a Yale man to the Badger (Wisconsin University), "as is also the Harvard Observatory, which I visited during the holidays, is inferior to the Washburn Observatory."
A band of Indians from the far West recently visited New Haven, and when they heard the Yale boys yell they drew apart and wept to think how they had been fooling themselves for years with the idea that they knew how to howl. [Boston Post.
The officers of the Everett Athenaeum of '85 for the second half year are as follows: President, Webster; vice-president, Hill; secretary, Root; treasurer, Edgerly; standing committee, Strong, Alderson, W. C. Smith; editors, Carrier, Binn, Miner; stage manager, W. W. Winslow; chorister, Whittemore.
Messrs. H. I. Dillenback, H. U. '82, and G. W. Currier, are the authors of a very pretty song and dance entitled "My Blue-eyed Geraldine," just published by Blair & Lydon. Two other song and dance pieces in the same set - "When Once the Ice is Broken" and "The Water Queen" - are forthcoming from the same source.
The faculty of Bowdoin College have permanently removed the five sophomores who were recently suspended for hazing. Other members of the class, nine or ten in number, who absented themselves rather than fulfil the obligations required of them, are now petitioning for permission to again join the class. These applications the faculty have under consideration. Every thing is quiet and orderly at the college.