some of the leading college papers is as follows: Yale Courant, 800; Yale Record, 600; Yale Lit., 550; Yale News, 350; Harvard Crimson, 500; Harvard Advocate, 475; Princetonian, 1,000; Nassau Lit., 450; Acta Columbiana, 500. No college paper has a circulation over 1,000. The circulation of the College Argus is 600.-Argus.

If

your foot is asleep, do not be alarmed. The poet tells that the sole that sleepeth is not dead.—Ex.

Full many a man has poked at glycerine

And flown promiscuous through the desert air;
Full many a maid has handled kerosene,
And gone to glory in a gorgeous glare.

-College Mercury.

The Faculty at Yale are putting in practice the hsstage system of making one or more men responsible for the actions of their classmates.-Colby Echo.

Slightly sarcastic was the clergyman who paused and addressed a young man coming into church after a sermon had begun, with the remark: “Glad to see you, sir; always glad to see those here late who can't come early." And then decidedly self-possessed was the youth thus addressed, in the presence of the astonished congregation, as he responded: "Thank you; would you favor me with the text?"-Ex.

Dr. Freeman, the well known historian, is engaged to deliver ten lectures at Cornell during the winter.-Ex.

England has at last given up the effort to pronounce Latin after the "Continental" method.-College Mercury.

LEFT.

"Meet me," she said, "by the orchard wall,
To-morrow night, as the sun goes down."

And this is to-morrow, and here am I,
And there's the wall, and the sun's gone down.

-Lampoon.

Cambridge, England, University has the largest freshman class it has ever known. It numbers 835.-Occident.

A Senior, who is dissatisfied with his photographs, has been sending them around to his friends, with the following remarks written on the back:

"Errata: 1. Imagine more expression in the eyes. 2. Imagine a smaller nose. 3. Think of my natural vivacity in place of the dullness here. 4. Imagine my mustache."— Chronicle.

It is announced that all prizes, honors and degrees which the Royal University of Ireland can confer, are open to female as well as male students.--Berkeleyan.

At Yale, the theological faculty have formally adopted the revised version for use in the devotional exercises of the school, believing it to be "better than any other English version, because it follows more exactly the Greek text as originally written, and is a more clear and correct translation "—Ex.

He. "Are you a believer in elective affinities?" She. "Well, really I have not read much about these scientific inventions lately. This is Edison's latest, I suppose." Yale Record.

RECEIVED.

We have received from the Atlantic a fine life-size portrait of Emerson.

We acknowled the receipt of the following exchanges :

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REPORT OF THE MEETING OF THE BOSTON ALUMNE ASSOCIATION.

The annual meeting of the Boston Association of Vassar Alumnæ was held in Boston, at Hotel Brunswick, on December 31st About twenty-five members were present, most of the classes from '68 to '81 being represented by one or more graduates.

The President, Mrs. Louisa (Parsons) Eveleth of '68 presided, with Miss Sarah E. Wentworth of '79 as Secretary.

After a brief business meeting, during which officers for the ensuing year were elected, and the report of the committee upon the June examinations, held in Boston, was received, the Association proceeded to carry out the programme prepared by its executive committee. This consisted of two discussions upon the subjects: The Defects of a Vassar Education,” and "The condition attached to the bequest of the late Matthew Vassar. Jr.”

Miss Cushing of '74 opened the first discussion with an interesting paper, in which she placed before the meeting several important points for its consideration. Among these was the limited extent of the elective courses. In this respect, Vassar had not kept pace with the progress made in other colleges.

A free and animated discussion followed, which resulted in the appointment of a committee to investigate from authoritative sources the present intellectual status of the college.

The second discussion was opened by Miss Whitney of '68, who read sev eral selections from the speeches and le ters of Matthew Vassar, Senior, to show that the condition accompanying his nephew's gift of eighty thousand dollars was in decided opposition to the spirit and principle of the founder After some discussion, in which considerable difference of opinion was ex. pressed, it was decided to enter upon the records of the Association a resolution embodying a protest against the condition of the bequest, and to send copies of the resolution to the other alumnæ asssociations.

A pleasant break in the serious deliberations of the meeting was afforded at one o'clock by an ample and enjoyable lunch.

Among the Alumnæ present was Miss Brown of the English Department; and the association had the good fortune to secure as its guest Prof. Mitchell. Both Prof. Mitchell and Miss Brown were able to give much valuable information concerning the condition and prospects of the college. Late in the afternoon, the meeting adjourned, and the members sepa. rated with a renewed sense of the pleasures and advantages attending these yearly reunions.

A BOSTON ALUMNA.

It was an afternoon late in Autumn. A slight young girl stood leaning over a much dilapidated, battered red fence that served to separate a lonely country road from a still lonelier, scraggy little garden. In the background, a tumble-down old house, whose internal shabbiness was made more evident by the glimmer of a fitful, indifferent tire; in the foreground, a few dying trees, some insignificant cabbages, a listless girl, and a fence, whose original cheerful color and symmetry many storms and much service in the capacity of hitching-post had done their utmost to destroy. Not an attractive picture, certainly-nor striking. The fire was too fitful, the fence too washed out, the girl too limp and pale; but even a casual ob