The Ohio University is the oldest educational institution west of the Ohio. Its charter was given in 1804, and it began operations in 1809. The income consists chiefly of rents derived from the university lands. A recent increase has been made in the rents, which is equivalent to an additional endowment of $50,000.

The Oxford Magazine is the title of a new journal which will be issued weekly during term time by members of the University of Oxford, both graduates and undergraduates. The periodical is intended to represent every shade of Oxford life and is to be established as a real and worthy organ of university opinion. It will contain, in addition to numerous general articles, reports of the chief clubs and societies of the university, important Oxford sermons and all university intelligence.

At the recent dinner of Williams College Alumni, President Carter reported that the college never was more deserving of affection than now. "There are," he said, "three Yale men, two Harvard men, and one Amherst man now in the faculty, and I could show you in five minutes where half a million could be placed and not be noticed. We expect $50,000 from the Clarke estate and shall raise each professor's salary $300 next commencement. We are the only college which has prayers twice a day, and we want to keep it a Christian nursery."

The poet of the Yale Record pipes a gentle lay. "It is not," he cries, "a water pipe, of which I sing,

Prosaic, cold, dull thing of lead,

Which yielding to great winter's wand,

Expanding, bursts into the plumber's paradise.

Not such, but meerschaum is my pipe,

Like Cytherean Venus, formed

From sea foam; and as white at first

Soon shall it brown as she did 'neath the tropic sun.

With amber too my pipe's adorned,

The sister's tear for hapless Phaethon,

Thus fraught with love and grief,

Each whiff my bosom burns and starts my tears."

D. B. Porter, the Columbia athlete, writes in the Spectator : "There was a day when Columbia led all colleges in athletics, but of late she has dropped behind Harvard. Why is this so? Not because Harvard men have any physical superiority, naturally, but because of determined work, and that, too, not by one or two men, but by large numbers. For several years past it has been possible to predict for months in advance that Columbia would not secure the intercollegiate cup. This year the chances are, that unless a new support arises, the college will drop to a still lower place."