It is said that the chapel choir at Williams receives a regular salary. At Yale it might be more appropriate to reverse the matter, and give the salary to the audience. [News.
Prof. Francis A. Walker's series of lectures which were delivered before the Harvard Finance Club last May, have been published in book-form under the title "Land and Its Rent," by Little, Brown and Co.
Additional entries have been received for the first athletic meeting as follows: Middleweight wrestling, R, J. Oglesby, '87; featherweight wrestling, F. E. Hughes, '87; middleweight sparring, G. Woodbury, '86, R. D. Smith, '86.
A colored student applied for and gained admission to the College of Pharmacy in Washington. A large part of the students have entered a protest against the action of the directors in receiving him, and have left till their protest is honored.
The universities of Vienna offer better inducements for the study of medicine than those of any other place in Europe. Those of Berlin rank second, yet there are many smaller ones whose degrees rank higher than either those of Vienna or Berlin.
The next question for debate in the Union is: Resolved, That the United States should cooperate with other nations in ferreting out and punishing plotters against established governments. The debate will be held March 27, and Messrs. Wait, Hoar and Eaton, of the law school will take part as regular disputants.
It has been decided to row the next class race of the University of Pennsylvania over the national course on the Schuylkill river, on Saturday, May 3. The race will be rowed in four-oared gigs, and will be contested by crew of the classes of '84, '85, '86 and '87, and the medical school.