FIELD, '62.-The editor of Beecher's Magazine has offered W. Gibson Field, Esq., a copartnership with him as editor and proprietor of that popular monthly. Mr. Field, however, has declined this, as he is about to accept a more advantageous and desirabie llterary connection, either in New York or Philadelphia, as soon as his affairs in Easton will permit it. He will contribute an excellent article to the next number of the LAFAYETTE MONTHLY. Mr. Field has chosen literature for his profession.

OTHER COLLEGES.

Gen. Lee's son has accepted the Presidency of Washington College. The faculty have requested the trustees to change the name to Washington and Lee College.

A series of Chinese text books is about to be published, prepared by Professor Roehrig, of Cornell University.

President McCosh, of Princeton, gives a reception to the students every two weeks at his residence.

Trinity College has received a legacy of forty thousand dollars from the late Mr. Chester Adams, of Hartford.

Students of the Ohio Wesleyan University will hereafter be required to pledge themselves not to become members of any college fraternity.

At Oberlin Monday instead of Saturday is the weekly holiday. Reason: to allow the young ladies to observe the traditional household washing day.

Amherst College has established three new prizes for excellence in chemistry. The largest is forty dollars in money.

A scientific expedition of Yale graduates and students has gone west. They intend collecting geological specimens and extinct animal remains in the Rocky Mountains for the Yale museum.

They are building a "Peabody Museum" and a dormitory, to be known as " Durfee Hall," at Yale College.

The new chair, of history, in Harvard University, has been tendered to Mr. Edward L. Godkin, now editor of The Nation.

The largest prize ever offered a freshman class in any college in America has been offered the class of '74 at Princeton. It consists of $500 per year for the college course to the student who passes the best classical examination at the end of the year.

-The above item has been going the round of the college press, but at latest accounts the bubble had bursted. Several students went from other colleges to compete for the prize, and came away stating that there is some flaw in the matter.

During the past year Princeton has received $175,000.

The question of the removal of Griswold College from Davenport is pending. Two cities of the State have made generous offers.

The senior studies at Harvard are all elective this year.

Princeton has decided to make Greek, Latin and Mathematics elective after the Sophomore year.

The classics are elective after the freshman year at the Western University of Pennsylvania.

The corner-stone of the University of the Pacific was laid a short time since at San Jose. Four students undertook to "smoke out " a freshman at Princeton, and were dismissed from college.

The Presidency of the University of Wisconsin has been offered, it is said, to Dr. E. 0. Haven.

Roll call in chapel has been lately abolished at Princeton. The Nassau Literary rejoices at the welcome change.

The marking system has been abolished at the Chicago University and at the Michigan University.

Attendance on religious service is optional at the University of Virginia. The plan is said to work very satisfactorily.

Harvard has nearly fifteen hundred students. Yale has about half as many.
The class studying Chinese at Cornell numbers thirty-five.

President Wolsey of Yale resigns at the end of this year. He has been twenty-five years at the head of the college. Yale has raised the tuition from $60 to $90 per annum. The faculty have passed a law forbidding students to carry books into the recitation-rooms. Fatal to "skinners."

Cornell College was thought to have no poet, till lately it was found she has no less than four. That "meet her," which has been going the round of the college press, has developed a wonderful amount of talent for poetry.

It is said that the extinction of the literary societies at Middletown College was brought about by the prevalence of secret fraternities. The College Courier comes out against secret societies and says that "some radical means of reform should be adopted at once in regard to this matter."

EXCHANGES.

We have received a larger number of exchanges than last month, and in general we cannot speak otherwise of their merit than in terms of praise.

The Nassau Literary Magazine, comes for the first time. We greet it with pleasure. It takes its place at once among the ablest journals on our table. The Nassau Literary is conducted by the Seniors of Princeton and issued quarterly. The October number contains among other articles an essay on "The Mission of the Beautiful" and one entitled "Maurice of Saxony and Alexander of Parina" both of which richly deserve a place among current standard essays. The writer on "College Autocracy" is at the least ingenious. The elaborate analogy, however, drawn in the outset between Russian and American Colleges scarcely warrants the sweeping inference that the spasmodic and vascillating career of many American colleges is due to the form of Government. So far as this is a marked peculiarity of our institutions, the reasons for it are for the most part obvious.

We congratulate our brothers at Princeton on the character of their magazine and shall look with interest for each succeeding issue.

The Dartmouth is rich and readable.

The Targum, from Rutgers, well represents the culture of that noble institution. College Days, published at Ripon College Wis., we greet with pleasure. Our western Colleges give abundant evidence of enterprise as well as study, in their papers. In our opinion however their merit does not depend upon the discussion of "woman's rights and wrongs." The Pantograph also comes for the first time and pleases us. We would like to make more particular mention of its attractive feature did space permit. One thing however we must remark: a debate between two young ladies on the question, "Is the popularity of a book a test of its merit." It is a most characteristic little affair-woman's logic all the

way through. The argument turns finally on the question whether or not certain books have merit. Miss Emma says that fictious works exalt their virtue and show up vice. Miss Laura insists that there is no such thing as a "good novel." How can they be good when they are but mere falsehoods?" Ah! Laura, you had better think this matter over again.

The Yale Literary Magazine comes a peculiar and welcome visitor. Button-holer comes out this month with No. 5. The prize essay on "The influence of National character on Tragedy" deserves commendation; also the article on "The use of Translations." The argument is clearly put, and forcible. When the discreet use of translations is not only permitted but commended by college authorities, we may hope for fewer abuses of them in secret. The College Times opens up with a poem by James Russell Lowell, followed by a good article on election studies.

The Trinity Tablet, College Argus, College Monthly, Hamilton Literary Monthly, The University Reporter, The Annalist, The College Herald, Amherst Student, The Cornell Era, The Harvard Advocate, The Medical Independent, The Griswold Collegian, Cap and Gown, Qui Vive, The Indiana Student, The Beloit College Monthly, The Union College Magazine, and The Virginia University Magazine, have each and all merits that we would be glad to note more particularly, did space permit. Our appreciation this time must be expressed by a hearty welcome and a "come again."

The paper issued at "The Seminary of our Lady of Angels" called "Niagara's Tribute," is agreat deal better than it looks. We appreciate the ability displayed in some of its articles not only, but admire the frank and independent spirit in which the sheet is conducted. But friend Niagara can't you dress up your Tribute a little better?

Ave Maria, has at least the merit of showing its colors. It is a zealous advocate of Roman Catholicism, but whether or not the zeal is according to knowledge, is another question.

The Torch Light, seems in very truth to "be published in the interest of Kalamazoo College." It furnishes an excellent advertising medium. Of its literary merit, however, if it aspires to possess any, we decline to speak.

Besides

those already spoken of, we have received The Bethany College Guardian, The Antiochian, The Georgia Collegian, The McKindree Repository; The Denison Collegian, The Collegian (Cornell College), The Acorn, The Tuftonian, The Lawrence Collegian, The Dalhouse College Gazette, Mount Pleasant Reveille, and St. Lawrence University Press.

We acknowledge also the November and December numbers of the Rhode Island Schoolmaster, "Light for the Line" The Weekly Spirit of the Times and Northampton County Educator, Tioga Agitator, The National Teacher, and The Christian Banner.

Our thanks are due for copies of the Yale Catalogue, Enterpres (University of Rochester), and The Aegis from Dartmouth, Amherst, Ohio.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Between three and four thousand American boys are studying in European schools and colleges.

There are forty-five Roman Catholic colleges in the United States and twenty-four in the British Provinces.

The largest of the nine universities in Russia is at Moscow. It has 75 professors and 1600 students.

A young ladies' secret society has been organized in Cornell College, Iowa. We are afraid that it is a case of unstable equilibrium. The young ladies and the secrecy are two

very powerful forces, but at the first jar one will gain the preponderance, and the affair will be upset.-[Amherst Student.

Heidelburg has 101 professors; Leipsig, 124; Berlin, 158; Bon, 93; Gottenburg, 204; Halle, 81.

The library of the late Rev. Dr. McClintock, valued at $8,000, has been sold to Drew Theological Seminary.

The German universities are all closed during the war, and the students for the most part have entered the army.

Mark Twain is working up a new book which he calls "An American Cannibal at Home," Just as we are going to press we learn with no little degree of sadness that the great Italian musician, Carlo Bassini, died in New York, on the 25th ult, at 3 P. M. The musical world has lost in this death one of its most able and most beloved instructors in the profession. We have not the space nor the words to express our feelings at this great loss. A great captain has fallen from the grand army of musicians.

More than one hundred ladies are at present studying law in America.

A recent "rush" at Cornell between '73 and 74 was discontinued at the request of the police of Ithica.-[College Courier.] No wonder the Era takes such a decided stand in the case-Yale students vs. "Brutal policemen."

Up to 1864 there has been S47 college bred men in Congress. Yale, leads with 138; then Harvard, 118; Princeton, 108; Dartmouth, 60.

The sun is now displaying a spot 50,000 miles in diameter, whichich can be seen without the aid of a telescope.

Weston failed in his recent attempt to walk 400 miles in five days.

D. K. E.-The Twenty-fourth Annual Convention of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity was held on the 16th and 17th of November, with the Upsilon Chapter, at Brown University, Providence, R. I. The number of delegates present was 47, representing 22 of the 27 active chapters of the Fraternity. The public exercises were held on the evening of the 17th, in the Westminster Church, one of the largest in the city. The orator was F. F. Emerson, D. D., of Gloucester, Mass., and his theme was "True Courage." At 11 o'clock on the same evening the members of the Fraternity, to the number of one hundred, sat down to a magnificent collation at the city hotel, which was presided over by C. L. Thomas, Esq., Yale, '53 The next Convention of the Fraternity will be held with the Delta Chi Chapter at Cornell University, N. Y.