C. Whitman, '86, is studying medicine in Paris.

Compulsory gymnasium for the Princeton freshmen was begun yesterday.

The first number of Vol. V. of the Harvard Monthly will appear Wednesday week.

It is rumored that base-ball and foot-ball are to be abolished at St. Paul's School by the rector, Dr. Coit, leaving cricket as the school game.- Yale News.

For the past two years students directly from preparatory schools have not had to take entrance examinations to get into Brown University.

A movement is on foot to build a State University for colored people in Montgomery, Ala. The city has given $5,000 and three acres of land to the institution.

The October Century has an excellent article on foot-ball, as played at Harvard, Yale and Princeton. It is written be a Princeton man, and is finely illustrated.

Great excitement was occasioned in the yard last night by the little game of "Push, gently Push," played by the sub-juniors and freshman. Much gore was spilled, one freshman having received a bloody-nose in the fray. He was rescued and carried from the field by his gallant nurse, who administered pap to him in small doses. The latest advices say he is slowly recovering and his faithful nurse, Mrs. Maginnis is the heroine of the hour.

The United States expedition to Japan to observe the total eclipse of the sun on the 18th of August, accomplished nothing on account of the cloudy weather.

A female college, modelled after Wellesley and Vassar, is to be established at Denver, Col., in the near future.

The Freshman class at Princeton is smaller this year than usual, having only one hundred and eighty members.

There is an article by Walter Camp in the October Century on "The Game and Laws of Foot-Ball."

The large room in Dane Hall will be used for the music courses of Professor Paine. The change from Boylston Hall will surely be a welcome one to many.

The Imperial University of Japan has recently established a chair of sanitary engineering, said to be the only chair of the kind in existence.

The preliminary tennis tournament to decide the representatives to play at the Intercollegiate tournament was begun at Princeton yesterday,