The Yale Glee Club want $1,200 from the Ohio and Mississppi R.R. for losses caused by delay and the necessity of breaking engagements at Cincinnati and Louisville.

At the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Rifle Association, Tuesday, J. A. Frye, '86, was elected a member of the board of directors.

Mr. L. M. Rutherford has given some very valuable astronomical instruments to the observatory of Columbia College. They are said to be worth $12,000.

The Principal of the University of St. Andrews, the Rectorship of which institution has been declined by Mr. Lowell, the American minister to England, has written a letter to Mr. Lowell requesting him to deliver an address to the students of the University. Mr. Lowell has accepted the invitation.

We give in the following, the number of freshmen in the different colleges, as far as we are able to ascertain from our exchanges: Harvard. 300; Yale, 257; Ann Arbor, 191; Cornell, 140; Alleghany, 156; Princeton, 150; Lehigh, 122; Syracuse, 100; Dartmouth. 99; Haverford, 56; Union, 50; Bates, 40; Rochester, 38; Colby, 34; Bowdoin, 33; Asbury University, 98; Columbia, 95; Williams, 86; Lafayette, 82; Hamilton, 75; University of Chicago, 70: Amherst, 62; Brown, 60; Wesleyan, 59; Rutgers, 27; Tufts, 26; University of Vermont, 23; Madison, 23; Middlebury, 16; Maritta, 16. [Syracuse Herald.

The second Junior Forensic will be due on Thursday, Jan. 10, from 2 to 3.30 P. M., in Sever 3. Subjects: 1. Is it advisable, on economic grounds, to foster the greatest possible immigration of foreigners? 2. Would it be advisable for the United States government to own and control all telegraphic lines? 3. Did any good ever come from forcing a man to act contrary to his convictions? 4. Has the constitution of the earth's atmosphere been subjected to considerable changes since the beginning of organic matter? 5. Compare George Eliot with George Sand.