Jan. 26 is the day of prayer in the colleges.

There are twelve students from the United States at Oxford.

Columbia has a total of 1662 students in all departments.

Rutgers is to have a school of electricity.

The class of '76 has produced more writers than any class which graduated from Harvard since the war.

The date of the CRIMSON dinner has been changed from Wednesday to Friday, February 17.

The Yale Literary Magazine is the oldest existing college periodical in the United States.

The second lecture in the course given in the Divinity School Chapel takes place this evening.

Harvard Union debate to-night on the scheme for reforming the management of Memorial Hall.

Dr. McCosh's resignation, as president of Princeton, will take effect Feb. 1st.

The Yale nine has arranged two games with the New Yorks on April 2 and 3.

The Princetonian has copied the article which appeared in the CRIMSON descriptive of the Glee Club's visit to Wellesley.

The discovery of a new movement among the students has caused an indefinite postponement of the opening of the universities at Moscow.

D. J. H. Ward and C. de V. Greeley, of the Divinity School, and R. A. Holland, '88, have been elected members of the Philosophical Club.

Dr. Bancroft, of Phillips Academy, Andover, has been presented with a purse of money, to be spent in travel in Europe and the Levant.