A newspaper paragraph says that a Harvard student has an insurance of twenty thousand dollars on the furniture of his room.

Dr. McKenzie's remark during the service yesterday morning that, "No one can stand before thy cold," was so true that many men forced smiles upon their frozen faces.

The charter of Brown University requires that the president be a Baptist minster; the charter of Yale requires quires a Congregational minister for that capacity.

Thirty-six men took part in the election of captain of the University eleven yesterday afternoon. Messrs. Willard, Peabody, Holden and Porter, withdrew their names as candidates, leaving a clear field to Brooks and Burgess. Mr. Brooks received a majority of the votes, and is therefore elected.

The Harvard Crimson denies the report that there was a case of small-pox in the college, and sighs for the fostering of the rumor by the college press. The Princetonian pleads guilty to having inserted the clipping from a New York daily, and is glad to make reparation by seconding Harvard in denying the report. - Princetonian.

The Catholic or American University is to be located at Washington, D. C. The endowment now in sight is nearly $1,000,000. The founders will not be content with a support insufficient to produce an income of from $300,000 to $400,000; which is the aggregate outgo for any one of the leading universities of England or Germany. The work intended in science, especially in chemistry, engineering and abstruse mathematics, will be abreast with that done in the eading German universities.