The members of the Williams foot-ball team are allowed ten cuts.

Cornell is trying to rouse a livelier interest in lacrosse.

Professor John K. Paine is said to be writing a cantata for the musical festival at Cincinnati next year.

Active measures are in progress at Princeton towards the construction of a base-ball cage.

Mr. E. H. Babbitt, Harvard '86, a resident graduate here, has been appointed instructor in modern languages at the Institute of Technology.

A valuable collection of paintings belonging to the estate of the late John Field of Philadelphia, has recently been presented to Williams College.

The catalogues for 1887 8 will contain the map of Cambridge with the different buildings and professor's homes located, which was left out of last year's edition.

In the foot-ball games on Saturday, Boston University and Trinity tied; Exeter defeated Technology, 24 to 4; Yale freshmen defeated Williston, 34 to 8.

The Columbia sophomores talk of giving a dinner to the members of their crew that defeated the Harvard sophomores in the freshman race at New London last June.

Dr. McGlynn, in the New York Sun, expresses the opinion that since Cornell is the genuine and typical American University, it will ultimately become the head centre of learning in America.

A telegram from Worcester says that the trustees of the new Clark University in that city have in their minds four Harvard professors for the presidency of the institution. Mathematics, physics and literature are the departments at present represented by these gentleman, the dispatch further states.