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.

Fifteen or twenty men have signified their intention of trying for places on the Freshman crew, but only seven or eight have commenced to train in the Gymnasium.-[Columbiana.

A large number of students of the University of Michigan spent their vacation at the New Orleans exposition. They started from Ann Arbor on the Monday before Christmas.

DePauw University at Greencastle, Indiana, is to have eight more buildings. One each, for the departments of law, medicine and theology, two dormitories, and three others.

The University of Pennsylvania Magazine says: "Owing to the fact that foot ball has broken up so many students the Trustees are thinking about breaking up foot ball."

The great interest taken in foot ball in England, and the skill with which it is played are well shown by the fact that the combined foot ball team of Oxford and Cambridge were recently defeated with ease by a London eleven.

The following colleges have co-operative societies for the benefit of students and professors: Harvard, Wellesley, Bowdoin, University of California, University of Michigan, and Washington University.

The 1271 students of Michigan University are divided among six departments. The academical has 503; the law, 256; the medical, 383; the dental, 78; the school of pharmacy, 62; and the homeopathic medical school, 39.

A neat little volume commemorative of the late Prof. Ezra Abbott of the Divinity School has been published for the alumni of the school. It contains a short sketch of the professor's life, several addresses by different clergymen, and other matter.