Mr. Sidney Bartlett, the oldest graduate of Harvard at present practicing law, celebrated his ninetieth birthday on Wednesday last.

Amherst College is preparing a very elaborate display of catalogues, publications, photographic views and other things of interest for the Paris Exposition.

Yale has changed the character of the prizes for indoor athletic contests, substituting for medals and cups ornaments of various kinds, as silver and cut glass.

The Oxford University Dramatic Society is to play "Julius Caesar" on February 12. The presentation is producing much discussion in academic circles in England.

G. L. Gibson (third class), of the Medical School, has successfully competed in a class of seventeen, representing various medical colleges, for the position of senior house officer of St. Luke's Hospital, New York, surgical department, and will assume his duties about March 1.

General Armstrong, of Hampton, Va., will deliver two lectures before the University next week-one on the "Education of the Negro" and the other on the "Education of the Indian." These are the lectures which he recently delivered at Yale by invitation. Professor Peabody was instrumental in inducing him to lecture here.