About ninety new students have been admitted to Vassar this year.

The Tuftonian, Tufts college paper, will this year have a handsome cover.

The Sunday afternoon compulsory service at Amherst has been abandoned.

Professor Shaler has an article in the November Atlantic on the "Negro Problem."

A committee has been chosen by the Technology freshmen to select a foot ball eleven.

The fall meeting of the Tech Athletic Club will be held on the Union grounds, Boston, on Nov. 1.

Messrs. J. F. Holland and C. A. WHittemore, of '85, have been elected members of the Signet.

A movement is on foot at Amherst to build a house for the Young Men's Christian Association.

The gymnasium is rapidly becoming more animated each afternoon as the fallish weather continues.

Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry, the student's favorites, begin their engagement at the Globe theatre tonight.

The sophomores will have as their procession costume a long black Ulster trimmed with orange and the regulation "plug."

Two hundred and thirteen men and young ladies have entered the literary and scientific departments of Michigan University.

Mr. Whiteside, coxswain of the '85 crew, has been appointed captain of the student police force for the coming torch light parade.

In the tennis tournament Friday, Boyden, '86, beat Hopkins two sets out of three, the playing being very close. He then beat Peirson, 6-5, 6-2.

Several promising lacrosse players from Exeter and Andover academies in the freshman class will form a good nucleus for a freshman twelve next spring.

The Roxbury Latin School students, who were to have played the freshmen on Saturday afternoon, telephoned at the last minute saying that they would be unable to come.

The petition for the reduction of the number of required forensic subjects for examination has been placed in Bartlett's. It is hoped that every senior and junior will be interested enough to sign his name.

The Dartmouth College library has recently come into possession of the original briefs of Daniel Webster, Jeremiah Mason, and Judge Hopkinson in the great Dartmouth College case.

The Technology men have canvassed the two upper classes on the presidential question, and the proportion of Blaine votes was not as overwhelming as it was in the mass meeting held some time ago.

The editorial in a revert issue of the Yale News urging the freshman to show that they "possess the necessary amount of Yale sand," seems to us at least superfluous. The Yale foot ball game has been distinguished among college sports for its rather too sandy character. -[Vassar Miscellany.

The University Bulleting for October is out. It contains the official reports of all the Corporation and Overseers' meetings, the accessions to the library, classification of the bulletin, the conclusion of the Bibliography of Ptolemy's Geography, and a continuation of the list of the Kohl collection of ancient maps.

The Republican rally in Union Hall, Cambridgeport, tonight, will be attended by the Blaine and Logan Club of the Law School in a bopy. The Republican committee have kindly offered an escort of a brass band and two companies of cadets. The procession will form in Harvard square at seven o'clock, and all student are cordially invited to join the Blaine and Logan Club in their march. Senator Pillsbury will devote part of his time to dissecting Dr. Everett's speeches. The other speakers are Geo. A. Marden, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and E. D. Hayden, Republican candidate for Congress from this District.