Thayer Academy at Braintree receive nearly $1,000,000, by the will of Mrs. Sar+++ W. Glover, for a gymnasium and a laboratory.

One thousand nine hundred and forty six dollars has already been subscribed by Princeton undergraduates for the Brokaw Memorial.

Austria and Denmark have undertaken university extension, while France is at present studying England s method. with a view of adopting it.

Williams College, under the lead of Prof. Lefavour, the instructor in physics, has introduced a measure providing that the metric system of weights and measures shall be used exclusively in the custom service of the United States.

Yale's first 'varsity crew rowed in the following order Wednesday: Bow, Perkins; 2, Balliet; 3, Rogers; 4, Shepley; 5, Graves, 6, Gallaudet; 7, Ives; stroke, Chatfield.

Officers of the Yale Freshman Union for the coming year are: President, G. C. Richmond; vice-president, J. G. Nash; secretary and treasurer, N. A. Kent.

Work upon the new Yale preparatory school at Lakeville, Conn., is progressing, and the board of instructors will be selected in a few months by the School Corporation, most of whom are Yale men.

Simon Newcomb, senior professor of mathematics in the United States Navy, and professor of mathematics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, has just received his diploma of election as an honorary member of the Royal Institute of London.

William I. Knapp, Ph.D., LL. D., Street professor of modern languages in Yale University, has resigned his profesship in the university and is to take charge of a similar department in the new Chicago University under President William R. Harper.

The entertainment for the benefit of the Amherst Athletic Association will be given about Feb. nineteenth in Pratt Gymnasium. It will consist of exhibitions in floor-tumbling, sparring, horizontal bar performing, and other indoor contests by professional and amateur gymnasts.

There are over fifty law schools in the United States, most of them connected with colleges or universities. The number of students in them is increasing every year, Harvard, the largest school, having this year an attendance of 363. The oldest American course in law is at the University of Pennsylvania, which was founded in 1789. The famous Judge George Sharswood's "Commentaries on Blackstone" was published while he was a professor in this latter school.