A. K. Kelly, '92, of the Springfield Cathedral. Fr. Kavanagh, '93, of St. Stephen's Church, Worcester, delivered the sermons on Monday and Tuesday evenings, and the sermon on Wednesday evening was by Fr. Lenz of Chicopee. All the sermons were in the Italian language. '93. The following is taken from the Waterbury American: "Thomas F. Devine, principal of the Bank Street School of this city, has just published in neat and attractive form an original poem, entitled, 'Like a Sun to Illumine the World.' It is an address to Columbia, in view of present conditions, calling upon her to do justice to her new wards. The meter is unusual, but when once the rhythm is fairly caught it is found to be smooth and melodious, while the whole sentiment of the poem is lofty and inspiring. It is beautifully printed on fine paper, with heliotrope cover of plain but tasteful design, and is altogether an attractive production."

The Montreal Morning Star devotes several columns, with an excellent cut of the speaker, to a scholarly sermon delivered by Rev. S. C. Hallissey, S. T. L., on St. Patrick, at Montreal, on March 17th.

'96. Thomas E. Cavanaugh has been selected as valedictorian of the class of 1900 at the Georgetown Medical School. Mr. Cavanaugh is also president of his class.

'97. Mr. John G. Murray, who has been for the past three years at Louvain, Belgium, will be ordained to the holy priesthood on Easter

Saturday, April 14. After his ordination, Fr. Murray will return to Connecticut, and will labor in the diocese of Hartford, under Bishop Tierney. Francis L. Fitz Patrick, ex-editor-inchief of THE PURPLE, who is also at Louvain, will be ordained in June.

'99.

Martin J. Hennessey made a good run for the position of school committeeman at the spring elections in the town of Quinapoxet.

At the literary exercises given at St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, on the feast of Ireland's patron saint, Mr. Francis J. Maxwell delivered the principal address on "Some Leaves From Irish History."

COLLEGE WORLD.

Edinburgh University has decided to confer the degree of LL. D. on Joseph H. Choate, United States Ambassador to England.

An association of American universities has been formally organized at Chicago. The object, principally, is the consideration of graduate study, and conferences will be held annually. The first problem to receive attention was the establishment of a uniform standard in the conferring of higher academic degrees.

At Zürich, the theological faculty of the University finds that it has had only eight students for ten professors during the past winter.

Miss Katherine Reed, daughter of the famous Ex-Speaker Reed, and forty-seven other young ladies were lately graduated from the New York University. The profession of the law is being rapidly crowded by enormous reinforcements of this kind.

Ex-President Cleveland, who holds the Henry L. Little lectureship at Princeton, will deliver two of his series of lectures on April 9th and Ioth. His subjects will be on affairs of public interest, and they will be open to members of the senior and junior classes, the faculty and board of trustees.

The most desirable position of President of

the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been offered to and accepted by Henry S. Pritchett, for many years superintendent of the U. S. Coast Survey at Washington. Mr. Pritchett was born in 1857, and was educated at Centre College, took a course in mathematics and astronomy at the Naval Observatory, Washington, and finished with a Ph. D. degree at the University of Munich.

Harvard has once more shown her supremacy over Yale in a debating contest, her representatives successfully proving the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved, That Puerto Rico Should Be Included in the Customs Boundaries of the United States." at New Haven and was presided over by President Hadley, while the judges were Chief Justice Parker of New York, Prof. G. W. Pepper of U. of P., and Prof. F. J. Goodnow of Columbia.

The contest took place

Alexander E. Frye, of the Cuban public schools, has made plans for the bringing of 2000 Cuban teachers to New England during the summer vacation. It is thought that a portion of the time spent here will be at Cambridge, quarters being provided for them by Harvard.

A severe attack was lately made upon a course of lectures delivered by Prof. John M. Tyler of Amherst, before the State Normal School of Rhode Island. The subject, "Man in the Light of Evolution," was not considered fitted for young people, in view of the fact that it inculcated ideas that are too materialistic.

Oxford University has published an incomplete list of 237 Oxford men, who have gone to the Four of them have been killed thus

Boer war.

far in battle.

Harvard has fourteen graduates in the present 56th Congress. The oldest of these is Senator George F. Hoar, of the class of '46; the youngest, Congressman William A. Chanler, of the class of '85.

One of the large department stores of New York city, which employs some 300 cash boys, has set apart a portion of the basement of the store for a school-room. Here the boys in sections attend school twice a week from eight to ten in the morning, under a teacher engaged by the store.

Figures from the Brown address book show that of the 2500 living graduates Rhode Island has 910; Massachusetts, 614; New York, 296; Connecticut, 92; Pennsylvania, 81, etc. She has 7 graduates in England, 6 in Germany, 5 in Canada, 4 in Burmah, 4 in China, 3 in India, 3 in Japan, 2 in Italy, and one each in Greece, Holland, France and Trinidad, S. A.

The faculty and students of the University of Texas have objected to a proposition that Edward Markham deliver the commencement address next June. The University Calendar, the official organ of the institution, says: "The University of Texas will make itself the laughing stock of the culture of the United States if it makes Edward Markham a commencement