The snow flurry of day before yesterday was so heavy at St. Paul's school, Concord, N. H., that a game of cricket, which was in progress, had to be postponed.

I. V. Williamson, of Philadelphia, is about to present nearly $10,000,000 to the city in which he lives, for the purpose of founding an industrial school of proportions and aims no less extensive than those of Girard College.

At its eight hundredth anniversary the University of Bologna conferred degrees on Gladstone, Spencer, Huxley, Lowell, Renan, Jebb, Max Muller, David Dudley Field, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Profs. Cayley, Adams, Agassiz, and many others.

A course of five lectures has been arranged for this winter to be given at Yale. The speakers are as follows: Rev. A. Schauffler of New York, Geo. W. Cable, Professor W. M. Sloan of Princeton, Bishop H. C. Potter of New York and Rev. William Taylor of New York.

At a recent meeting of the senior class of Yale last evening H. W. Wells was elected class orator, T. W. Buchanan, class poet, and W. W. Ames, statistician, Messrs. Barstow, McMahon, Platt, Sherrill and Vernon were elected class historians.

The sections in field works for this week in N. H. 8 are as follows: Oct. 11, section A, 11.15, Museum steps; Oct. 11, section B, 12.20, Eastern depot; Oct. 12, section C, 11.15, Museum steps; Oct. 13, section D, 12.20 Eastern depot. The excursions under Mr. Wolff are to Marblehead Neck, and the train leaves at 12.30.