Hon. William Henry Rawle of Philadelphia has accepted an invitation to deliver the oration at the annual meet of the Phi Beta Kappa this year.

Joseph Cook says that the existence of Socialism and kindred evils in Germany is partly accounted for by the materialistic tendencies of the professors in the Universities.

Col. Bancroft's first order, in his new capacity as Superintendent of the Cambridge Railway, forbids all loafing and scuffling on the part of employees of the road, near the Harvard Square offices.

A foot ball team composed of Frenchmen recently undertook to make a tour through England: before they had played three games, however, they were so roughly handled that they were obliged to abandon the project.

Daniel Pratt having returned from his two weeks vacation, which he has been spending at Deer Island at the expense of the city of Boston, delivered his first lecture of the second half year in the transept of Memorial Hall, yesterday.

"Yale has at last organized a co-operative society, and it cost her a pang, no doubt, to follow the lead of her rival, Harvard; but her good sense perceived the advantages of co-operation which are manifest wherever it has been tried," says the Student.

President White, of Cornell, has requested the students not to smoke upon the campus or grounds. The Cornell Sun indulges in the hope that certain professors will not consider themselves exempt from this gentlemanly request.

Greek 2 will devote the Saturday recitations during the remainder of the year to the "Oedippus," of Sophocles: the recitations on Tuesday and Thursday, during February, will be given to the "Birds" of Aristophanes: during March, these recitations will be employed in completing the work in Thucydides.