Union College is preparing to send out a minstrel show.

Dartmouth is said to have a very fine pitcher in the Freshman class.

The Dartmouth Alumni have a dinner Wednesday evening at Young's.

The Paris Ecole de Medecine now contains seventy-eight female students.

F. D. Sherman, '87, has two poems in the current number of the Century.

The paper in Greek 10 yesterday, was extremely fair, while covering fully the work of the entire course.

There was a very general feeling of satisfaction over the examination papers in N. H. I. G.

Butler's Analogy-Professor: "Mr. T-,you may pass on to the ' Future Life,' " Mr. T-: "Not prepared."-Ex.

Oh, yes, let's have a new bridge to Cambridge. It will make it so much easier for a young man to go to Harvard.-[Gazette.

The Brown University Glee Club is soon to give a concert in Roxbury, musical men of Harvard will have a good chance to compare he Brown University Club with the musical representatives of our university.

The yard walks are in an indeterminate state, midway between a condition of slush and that which must have existed in the glacial period.

The department of political and physical science at John Hopkins University was never in such a flourishing condition nor numbered so many students as at present.

We have it on good authority that the layer of dust on the seats in some of the examination rooms would require a new and vigorous broom in order to be removed.

Mark Twain and George W. Cable are to give a reading to the students of Oberlin. They have been before the students of several Western colleges, we wish they would come here.

It is said that the schoolmarm, whose letter we print upon the first page, was so pleased with our Chicago delegation that she changed her day for coming East in order to have the pleasure of returning in their company.

Members of Political Economy can find in the Sunday Herald a very interesting article on the Silver question. In this article, are accounts of interviews with several prominent authorities on the subject, which would well repay careful reading.

A New York paper gives the following complimentary notice of the book recently published by Prof. Hitchcock of Amherst: "The Manual of Gymnastic Exercises as practised by the classes of Amherst college, by Dr. Edward Hitchcock, now published in a pamphlet of about 50 pages, will furnish for colleges and other institutions what is generally acknowledged to be the model system. Amherst has been for many years distinguished by the perfection of gymnastic education."

If things continue to so at the pace they are going at present, Oxonians who went down in 1880 will be unable to recognize the face of their Alma Mater in 1890. She is not only changing her normal complexion, but also her physical features most rapidly. Four new buildings of importance have sprung up within the last two years. The most important, the new school, is yet in an unfinished state, Magdalen and Trinity are greatly extending themselves, and a new college is nearly completed which will work great results in bringing old-fashioned Oxford up to date.-[Sun.