$9,000,000 were spent on the public schools of Massachusetts last year.

Wesleyan College will send a number of men to the B. A. A. sports on Feb. 11.

64 of the 68 Juniors at Columbia elected the course in English, as did 57 of the 70 Seniors.

A summary of Prof. Hill's lecture on Smollett will be due in English A on or before Feb. 1.

The first book of college songs ever published by the university of Boston will soon be on sale.

The Brookline High School will give an open indoor meeting in Brookline toward the end of February.

Walter Camp has "A Plea for the Wedge in Football," in the current issue of Harper's Weekly.

Connecticut has more college students in proportion to her population, than any other state in the Union.

The editors of the daily and weekly papers and correspondents at Columbia of outside papers have formed a Press Club.

The living alumni of the University of Michigan number twice as many as the living alumni of any other American university. - Ezc.

More than one-third of the students at Williams College are from New York.

President Patton of Princeton, who has been absent about a year, will resume his regular duties soon.

The Wellesley College girls entertained the Brown University Glee, Mandolin and Guitar Clubs last evening.

The annual meeting and dinner of the Yale Alumni Association of Boston was held yesterday at the Vendome.

The captains of the various athletic teams at Yale acted as ushers at the presentation of the new gymnasium last Monday.