Bishop Keane, of Richmond, has been elected first rector of the proposed Catholic University, to be located in Washington, D. C.

The Yale Athletic Association has entered a team of fifteen men in twenty three events at the Manhattan games to be held in New York on Saturday.

The flags commemorating Yale's athletic victories have been attacked by "moths and other insects," and many of them are found to be nearly ruined.

The symphony rehearsal and concert programme in Music Hall for to-day and to-morrow is as follows: J. Haydn, Symphony in C, No. 7; L. Spohr, Concerto in D minor, No. 9; O. Floershelm, Elevation (first time;) A. Dvorak, Scherzo Capriccioso, op. 66 (first time;) Soloist, Mr. Franz Kneisel.

David Masson, professor of rhetoric and English literature in the University of Edinburgh, delivered a lecture in that city on Tuesday last, in the course of which he characterized Ignatius Donnelley's Shakespearian cryptogram as miserable drivel and a tissue of arithmetic puzzles which would be hissed at in Bedlam.

Dr. Hale will conduct the chapel services for the rest of January and till the 19th of February. He announced yesterday that the Scripture readings would be from the Gospels, in such order as to show what he called the "Chronology of the active life of Christ," and illustrate the changes of opinion regarding Him, as cause produced effect, and one event led to another.