The first regular salary paid a president of Princeton College was pound150, and the first professors' salaries pound40 a year. - Princetonian.

The custom of stamping in recitations whenever anything ridiculous or in any way peculiar occurs seems to become more and more prevalent every year. - Cornell Sun.

The anniversary dinner of the DAILY CRIMSON at the Quincy House, Boston, will take place this evening at half-past six o'clock.

The thirty candidates for the Yale freshman nine practice every day from 4 to 6 o'clock in the Lincoln rink and the Yale gymnasium.

The statement that tickets for the Glee Club-Pierian concert on the 18th in aid of the American school at Athens, can be had of the patrons and patronesses is not true.

For the benefit of several correspondents who have written to the CRIMSON on the subject of the plank walks, we will say that we owe the overseers, and not the faculty, thanks that our prayers have been answered at last.

The library of P. Vanderbilt Spader, an alumnus of Rutgers, was presented to the college last Tuesday. It contains between 4,000 and 5,000 volumes valued at $15,000. The library is particularly rich in illustrated works on art, local histories, biography, and books of reference. - Ex.

The subject of Yale and Harvard withdrawing from the league and playing 10 games - five at Yale and five at Harvard - is thought a good scheme in New Haven, and one that would create an extraordinary interest in the sport and be of great financial advantage. The president of the Yale team thought favorably of it, and one prominent athlete is of the opinion that if Harvard was similarly inclined, Yale would almost unanimously vote to join her. - Boston Herald.