The income of Oxford University for 1887 was L326,000.

Instead of the customary memorial, the senior class of Cornell will give a cinder track to the college.

Sadie Martmot devotes a chapter to Harvard in her Memoirs, which she is now writing.

Prof. J. M. Sloane of Princeton has declined the chair of Latin in Columbia which was offered him.

The University of Zurich has conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy upon a Philadelphian woman.

Lectures have been given in Volapuk at Yale, the first American college at which the language has been introduced.

Lind's hand, which was hurt so badly in a practice game a week ago is much better, but it is doubtful whether he will be able to play again this year.

The University of Bologna is the oldest university now in existence. Its 800th anniversary will be celebrated on the 11th, 12th and 13th of June.

In his annual report, President Barnard of Columbia discusses the advisability of discontining the undergraduate department of the School of Arts, also the need of a gymnasium.

There are two hundred and seventy-three Young Men's Christian Associations in the United States, having a membership of about fifteen thousand, of which Harvard contributes a hundred.

The graduating class at Yale numbers 109 men, while that at Cornell numbers 120.

From to-day until the 20th of this month, persons desiring to form club tables in Memorial may do so by filling blanks which may be had of the auditor. Ten persons may constitute a club.

A novel game of base ball took place on the Dartmouth campus recently between the members of two rival boarding clubs. The players all wore dress suits with kids and opera hats, and in running and sliding bases furnished much amusement for the grand stand.

The Manhattan Athletic Club, the well-known New York organization, is engaged in a war of words with the Pastime Athletic Club of the same city. The latter club holds its annual sports to-morrow, and the M. A. A. has forbidden any of its members to enter what it stigmatizes as "pic-nic games." The games promise to be very successful, as a large number of the leading New York athletes have entered, and the M. A. A. is having several of its members resign on account of its action.