The Persian language is taught at Cornell.

The Junior promenade at Princeton will take place Feb. 15.

The new Alpha Delta Phi house at Amherst is nearly finished.

The Williams College library is open to the students on Sundays.

Cornell has more Greek letter fraternities than any other college.

It is reported that there will be an examination in Geology 4 on Dec. 19.

The class colors of the freshmen at Smith college are crimson and white.

The Harvard Glee Club will sing just one day before the Yale club in Chicago.

The endowment of Cornell is about $6,000,000 and the annual income over $500,000.

G. H. Merrill '90 has lately accepted a position in the Maverick National Bank, Boston.

About 4.000 of the 65,000 students in American colleges are preparing for the ministry.

The Glee and Banjo Clubs are to give a concert at the Boston Athletic Club Saturday evening.

The marks in History 12 were given out yesterday. There were seven A's and about 25 B's.

Dr. Kuno Francke has a short contribution in a recent issue of Germania, "In Goethe's Iphigenie."

"Family Stocks in a Democracy" is President Eliot's contribution to the last number of the Forum.

The marks in Music 2, both for Thanksgiving and the Mid-year's, will be made up from the daily work in the course.

An effort is being made to raise a subscription for the erection of a gymnasium at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, Mich. This University has over 2,000 students, and as yet has no gymnasium.

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" must be read by members of German 4 outside of class before the Christmas holidays. Goethe's poems in volumes one and two of the Cotta edition will be read in class until then.

Frank W. Nicholson, A. M., has prepared an edition of the "Phormio" of Terence, with stage directions, and John C. Rolfe, Ph. D., has prepared a similar edition of the "Heauton Timorumens" of Terence, which Ginns and Co. have just issued.

The second lecture in the course to promote the fund for the Wendell Phillips Hall will take place at Tremont Temple this evening, Rev. A. P. Putnam, D. D., will lecture on "The Old Guard." The price of tickets is from 20 to 50 cents.

Hon. James W. Savage, P. A. '43, of Omaha, died on the 22d ult. He was a graduate of Harvard, a Lieutenant Colonel in the army, a law partner of Senator Manderson, a judge of the Sixth District of Nebraska, an authority in Nebraska local history, and a government director of the Union Pacific Railway. Charles Francis Adams in announcing his death to the directors paid a high tribute to him as a man of ability, character and distinguished public services.