The following men have been elected presidents of the different classes at Wesleyan: '94, H. A. Tirrell; '95, J. A. Anderson; '96, H. R. Johnston.

At a meeting of the students of the U. of P. last week, $4,380 was subscribed toward the proposed $100,000 Y. M. C. A. clubhouse and gymnasium.

The late Horace Smith of Springfield left $10,000 to Tuskegee College, and $5,000 to the International Y. M. C. A. training school.

Instead of the short essay each week in English, the Sophomores at Wesleyan are to write a short novel and hand it in at the mid-years.

The University of Virginia has established the "Linden Kent memorial chair of English literature," provided with an endowment of $60,000, the gift of Mrs. Kent, of Washington. The new chair will be filled by Prof. Charles W. Kent, of the University of Tennessee.

For the fiscal year of 1893 the Japanese government demanded from the Imperial Diet the sum of 414,440,286 yen (about $300,000) for the current expenses of the Imperial University in Tokio, but the committee on the budget in the House of Representatives reduced it to 334,729,251 yen.