Five cent cash fares have been adopted by the Cambridge railways.

Prof. Palmer held no recitation in his philosophy courses, on Saturday last.

The series of matches now being shot at Watertown will be finished this week.

The silver cups to be awarded in the current shotgun matches, are on exhibition at Leavitt and Peirce's.

Mr. Lathrop's collection of medals, won for general athletics, is on exhibition in Foster and Co.'s windows.

The sophomore class at Amherst with 70 men is the smallest and the freshman class with 103 is the largest.

Oberlin is to have a new college building to cost $60,000. Work will be begun when the spring weather permits.

A philological club has been started by the students of Latin, at Boston University, which will be made permanent.

The cash business done by the co-operative society during the first ten weeks of the fall term amounted to $15,000.

Girard College, Philadelphia, more properly called a training school for orphan boys, has an endowment of $10,238,000.

The dormitory numbered 1 Holyoke street, has been named Hilton House, to distinguish it from West Hilton, and Old Hilton.

The new laboratories erected at Lehigh are said to be the finest in this country and the equal of any in the world. A new course in advanced electricity has been started there to meet the needs of the coming age.

Smith is the only college for women which was founded by a woman. Wellesley was founded by Mr. Durant, and Vassar by Matthew Vassar.

Professor Sumner's little work, "Social Classes," has been translated into French under the title, "Des Devoirs respectifs des Classes de la Societe."

Among the letters to the New York sporting papers on the subject of the Yale-Princeton game was one from W. H. Manning, '82, one of Harvard's finest players.