An American Girls College in Marsovan. Asia Minor, was burned recently by the Turkish authorities.

The annual meeting of the Wesleyan University Club of Boston will be held at the Quincy House Feb. 27.

The current number of Harper's Weekly has for its centre illustration a view of the junior promenade at Yale.

Eight of last year's baseball team of the University of Minnesota are again candidates for positions on the nine.

The Dartmouth members of the University Club gave a dinner in honor of President-elect Tucker, Thursday night.

The senior class of the Boston University Medical School has voted to wear caps and gowns at commencement.

There are 760 students now registered at Stanford University. This just 200 more than last year at this season of the year.

The alumni of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity gave a dinner Thursday night at the University Club home in Boston.

The life of Ezra Cornell, founder of the college which bears his name, has been published by the Hon. Alonzo B. Cornell.

To promote social intercourse among the professors of Columbia College, informal gatherings are held every Monday evening.

John S. Johnson, the champion bicyclist, won the majority of the points in the amateur skating championship held Thursday.

Rev. Dr. Tucker, recently elected president of Dartmouth, is to deliver a lecture in the Old South Church, Boylston street, next Sunday.

The freshmen of Tufts College held their class dinner Thursday night notwithstanding the endeavors of the upper class men to prevent it.

The Princeton Alumni association of Philadelphia has elected delegates to represent it in attempting to form a national alumni association.

Over 500 college and high-school students will form an organization to be known as the Columbia Guide Corps at the World's Fair next summer.

The Student Volunteer is the name of a new monthly paper which is to be started in the interest of the students' volunteer movement at Princeton.

Hereafter Mr. Copeland will not hold the class in Reading and Speaking on Friday. A class to take its place will be held on Thursdays at 2.30 in Sever 29.

Prof. E. E. Barnard of the Lick Observatory, will give lectures in Nashville, his home, and in Chicago, before his trip abroad for astronomical observations.

All the Yale men who won points in the Yale-Harvard or Intercollegiate athletic games last year will receive blue sweaters inscribed with a white "Y."

Robert H. Nichols of Binghamton, N. Y. won the medal given annually by the Yale Literary Magazine. Mr. Nichols' production was upon Washington Irving.

Mr. John Huntington of Cleveland has bequeathed $700,000 for an Art and Polytechnic school in that city and further a sum of $800,000 as an endowment fund for it.

The officers of the Signet for the second half-year from '94 are as follows: President, H. A. Cutler; Vice-President, L. T. Damon; Secretary, J. R. Oliver; Treasurer, H. C. Lakin; Librarian, R. B. Beals.

The senior class of the Boston University Law School has chosen five to enter an oratorical contest, by which the speakers will be chosen by the Law School Faculty. Those selected are Charles F. Page, of Brookline, Charles C. Milton of Worcester, Charles H. Brock of Boston and Geo. K. Denton of Slaughtersville, Ky.

Professor Arthur M. Comey of Tufts College has an article in the February number of the Educational Review, with statistics, showing the growth of the colleges of the United States. His conclusion is that "the increase in college students has far exceeded that of the population during the past 40 years; that while the population has increased 165 per cent., the number of students has increased 256 per cent. The most striking increase has been in the last decade.