The discovery that a history of the United States, from which all mention of the rebellion is omitted, is in use in the public schools of Omaha, has led to a sharp fight in the board of education.

Dalzell, Yale '91, is a candidate for pitcher's position on next year's nine. He is a swifter pitcher than Stagg, but is not expert with the curves. It is thought that Osborne, '88 Sheff, will catch him.

The leading subscribers to the fund of $10,172 which was presented to Edward Burgess were: New York Yacht Club, $1000; William P. Clyde, $400, H. C. Roome, $500; J. Pierpont Morgan, $500; C. Vanderbilt, $500; James Gordon Bennett, $500.

Oberlin boasts of being the first college that admitted women on equal terms with men, but to the University of Wisconsin belongs the honor of having graduated a larger number of women than any other co-educational institution.-Pennsylvanian.

Mayor Russell, of Cambridge, has received a letter from Mr. Frederick H. Rindge, who has offered to build a new city hall providing the city will select and buy its own lot, in which he expresses his preference for the site proposed for the new building opposite the present city hall, and bounded by Main, Inman, Austin and Temple streets. This site also appears to be a favorite with the public at large, and will undoubtedly be the one selected.

Cornell is soon to have an experiment station. The council recommended that $26.000 be divided into two parts, $10.250 for salaries and $4750 for supplies. Besides the directors of the station, there will be appointed the following assistants: In experimental horticulture, experimental agriculture, chemical analysis, veterinary science, experimental botany and experimental entomology; also two second assistants in experimental agriculture and one in chemical analysis.