The North American Review and the Cosmopolitan Magazine will issue Williams numbers next autumn at the time of the centennial celebration of the college.

The new telescope for the Chicago University will not be ready for use till the fall of 1893. The lens will be cast by Alvin G. Clark, and will be forty-five inches in diameter; or eleven inches larger than that in the great Lick telescope.

Miss Florence Bascom of Williamstown, Mass. will be the first woman to obtain a degree from Johns Hopkins. She will receive the degree of Doctor of Philosophy next June. This will be the fifth degree she has received from various colleges.

Out of Princeton's last year's class of 143 students, sixteen are studying medicine, thirty-two law, and twenty-two are in business, three in journalism, eighteen are teaching, fifteen taking post-graduate courses, and thirteen are undecided or not heard from.

Tufts College has established a graduate department with a special faculty. The new catalogue announces courses in chemistry and biology leading to the degree of Ph. D.

Dr. McCosh of Princeton has been unanimously elected to the chairmanship of the department of rational psychology of the International Congress of Education to be held in Chicago next July.

Mr. Thomas N. Baker, a colored student from Eastville, Va., and Miss Annie I. Henry of West Hingham, Mass., are the commencement speakers from the department of Liberal Arts of Boston University.

Prof. Charles H. Morse will give eight lectures on Gothic architecture and sculpture, before the Art Students' Association on Saturday morning, beginning Feb. 18. The lectures are to be delivered in Perkins Hall, Boylston street.