Professor Mercian of Columbia has gone to Athens to take charge of the American School there.

The faculty of Yale College has decided to allow the members of the Glee Club three days extra at Christmas.

Fletcher, '87, has returned to Cambridge but will not play football this fall, owing to injuries received a year ago.

The boat-club is said to be $1500 in debt on account of the heavy expenses incurred by purchasing two shells last year.

Columbia sophomores have not created any disturbance this year, as has been the custom in former years, and there is some talk among them of abolishing the annual cane rush. The sophomores claim that they can afford to abolish the custom, as they succeeded in vanquishing '89 in the several rushes last year.

A report is current in the New Haven and New York press to the effect that Albert Muller, a Yale student from Nevada, has turned adventurer. He has succeeded in swindling Lawyer Bennett out of $1000, and a New Haven bookseller has suffered to the extent of $300. He has fled and his whereabouts are unknown.

To-night the great reception to Gen. Paine and Mr. Burgess takes place in Faneuil Hall, Boston. The committee of arrangements includes many of the most prominent men of Boston and the affair promises to be very successful. All Harvard students are cordially invited to attend.

The Wesleyan football team has been at a training table for ten days.

Tuition rates will probably be raised ten dollars a vear in the Academic department at Yale, the raise to go into effect next year.

New Haven, Ct., Oct. 5, 1887.- Yale, with three substitutes and somewhat of an experimental eleven, opened the football season Wednesday by defeating Wesleyan 36 to 0. There was very little brilliant individual or teamwork shown by the Yale men. The Yale team was made up as follows : Rushers-Robinson, '89, Gill, '89, Cross, '88, Corbin, '89, Woodruff, '89. Clawson, '89, Pratt, '88; quarter-back-Beecher, '88; half-backs-Morrison, '90, Williams, '91; back-Baker, 91.

The Intercollegiate Football Association met in Springfield Wednesday night, to prepare for the fall season. Delegates were present from the Institute of Technology, Trinity, Stevens, Dartmouth and Amherst. Brown was expelled because of non-representation, and Williams was refused admission. The playing rules remain nearly the same as last year, a few minor changes being made The schedule as finally adopted was :

Oct. 25, Dartmouth vs. Stevens at Hoboken.

Oct. 26, Dartmouth vs. Technology at Boston.

Oct. 29, Amherst vs. Trinity at Hartford.

Nov. 2, Amherst vs. Dartmouth at Hanover.