NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Michigan University has 1329 students.

There are forty men from the senior and junior classes taking elocution under Mr. Jones.

Mr. Halloway, an Englishman, has given $2,000,000 to endow an institution for the higher education of women.

Herbert Spencer, the English scientist, accompanied by Professor Marsh of Yale College, visited the Peabody Museum at New Haven, Conn., Saturday, and afterwards called on Professor Sumner.

The jury in the Bowdoin College hazing case, tried at Portland, Me., having returned a verdict of $2,500 for the plaintiff, the defendants take exceptions.

Williams College is reported to come into $400,000 by the will of Edward Clark, president of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and one of the college trustees.

A friend of Boston University has recently offered to be one of ten to add $500,000 to the endowment, or to give one-tenth of the sum, however raised. The new Jacob Sleeper Hall of Boston University will be occupied by the College of Liberal Arts after the Thanks - giving recess.

"The other day I marked 98 deg. in the shade, my high-water mark. I happened to meet a neighbor ; so we mopped our brows at each other ; he told me he had just cleared 100 deg., and I went home a beaten man. I might suspect his thermometer (as indeed I did, for we Harvard men are apt to think ill of any graduation but our own,) but it was a poor consolation." - [J. R. Lowell.

Vassar College is said to be in a very flourishing state this year. Over one hundred new students have altogether been received. These, together with the old students returning, swell the total number in attendance to a figure not reached in any previous year since 1877. Additions are yet being made daily, and the indications are that the accommodations of the college may be severely taxed before the close of the academic year.

Yale is enthusiastic over the new freshman coxswain. The college papers speak highly of his work, as does the New Haven Register. Speaking of the race between the freshmen and the Scientific School in eight-oared boats, the New Haven correspondent of the Boston Journal says: "Contrary to all expectation, the freshmen won their race. The freshman coxswain, W. B. Goodwin of Biddeford, Me., will stand a good chance for university coxswain. He has had some experience at Exeter and weighs about one hundred pounds out of training. He steered remarkably well in yesterday's race. After the experience of last June, Yale will be glad to get a competent coxswain."

James Parton's new lecture is entitled "The Coming Man's Education." It begins: "I have in my mind's eye a glorious university, completely organized and equipped to afford an education such as the future man will be given. It looks not at all like Oxford or Cambridge, or even like Harvard. It looks more like a factory village situated in the midst of a finely cultivated farm of one thousand acres, with beautiful gardens and parks, the whole the centre of a thriving industry such as our factory villages might be, must be, shall and are just going to be, for man will not long be the submissive vassal that he is now," and so on.