The faculty of the University of Pennsylvania have offered ten prizes ranging from $10 to $30 for essays on various subjects.

The board of trustees of the University of Chicago have requested professors and students to wear caps and gowns on all public occasions.

The Columbia Theatre Services, at which Harvard students have done most of the singing for the last few years, will begin Sunday, January 8.

The University of Chicago announces the gift of about $500,000 as a result of the bequest of William B. Ogden, who was the first Mayor of Chicago.

G. A. Woodruff, Yale '89, who is now in the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, has been engaged to coach the Pennsylvania crew next year.

President Schurman of Cornell will publish in January, a new journal, called The School Review, which will be devoted to the needs of primary and secondary education.

The students of the Yale Law School have decided to publish a book containing a sketch of each man in the senior class and various articles contributed by students.

The Manager of the Athletics at the World's Fair is endeavoring to arrange a boat race between Cambridge, Oxford, Yale and Harvard for the college championship of the world.

Of the former members of the Hasty Pudding Club 4 have risen to be Presidents of Harvard College, 11 to be Deans of the various departments, 82 to be instructors or professors, 10 Presidents of other colleges, 7 U. S. Cabinet Officers, 8 U. S. Senators, 41 members of Congress and 5 Governors of states.