The Advocate is out to-day.

The Phi Beta Kappa society was founded at Williams and Mary College in 1776.

The accumulated libraries of two lit erary societies at Dickinson, aggregate over 21,129 volumes.

Several prominent gentlemen in Boston are trying to organize an athletic club on the plan of the New York Club.

Dr. Whiting invites students in Physics 2 to meet him at his house, (3 Garden street) on Friday evening, after half-past seven.

The faculty of the Ohio State University are trying to make arrangements by which upper classmen will be able to draw books from the State Library.

Considerable interest in the study of elocution has been aroused among the students of the University of Michigan. A chair of elocution is soon to be established,

Those who have in charge the lighting of the yard, with a childlike and beautiful faith that the moon would shine brightly through the heavy clouds that covered the sky last evening, did not light the yard lamps and the unfortunates who happened to venture out were left to stumble blindly through the mud and slush. "Economy is the road to wealth."

Phillips Andover Academy has furnished fifteen college presidents.

The men in course 33, German, are complaining of the exceedingly high price of their text books, they having thus far this year invested about $5 in them. - Yale News:

The candidates for the Yale University nine will not begin to eat at a training table till April 1st, but are expected to go to bed at nine o'clock every night.

As an example of legislative liberality, it is interesting to note that the Michigan legislatures, since 1867, have given to the State University at Ann Arbor, by special appropriations, an aggregate of $1,000,000; or an average of $50,000 a year for 20 years.

At present Williams and Mary College Va., is said not to have a single student; but the venerable president rings the bell regularly every morning, keeps the doors open for students, preserves the charter, and it may be presumed his salary.

Prof. Goodwin of Harvard, referring to the effects of increasing the optional list, said that thirty years ago five teachers were sufficient to teach Latin and Greek in Harvard. Now both are elective, and ten men work harder than those five did. They gave only twenty-eight hours a week in new instruction, and then, perhaps, half of them were not actually so devoted and now eighty-seven hours are given in new instruction.

There is not a car running on the Cambridge line to-day. The Harvard students in Cambridge think that it would be great sport to run a car tonight and fill it with students having university men for conductor and driver. They also propose to follow up the car with a small army of students, and have a "rough and tumble," as they call it, with the strikers. At a conference this forenoon they decided to ask the city officials for a license and then to offer their services to the company. The faculty have been notified and the scheme will probably be killed. - N. Y. Evening Post.

The above is another example of sensational journalism. Where the Post gets such stories is a mystery, unless out of the fertile imagination of some poor emaciated penny-2-liner.