The oldest college in the world is Mohammand College at Cairo which was 1000 years old when Oxford was founded. It has 11,000 students

In Russia, unruly students are punished by impressing them into the army for from one to three years according to the nature of the offense.

The University of Pennsylvania intends to join with Yale and Harvard in arranging an exhibition representative of the American universities at the Paris Exposition.

Until 1888 it was the custom at Harvard for the Freshman class to elect three captains at their first class meeting, to take charge respectively of the football, baseball, and crew interests.

The University of Chicago faculty has decided to confer on Admiral Dewey the honorary degree of LL.D. This is the second honorary degree conferred by Chicago, the first having been given last fall to President McKinley.

Professor Lanman is having manuscripts copied in Burmah and Ceylon for the Harvard Oriental series. The College library in Rangoon is rich in Buddhist palm leaf books, and a transcript of one of these will soon be on its way to Cambridge.