NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Edinburgh University has 3,237 students this year.

The salary of the professors of law at Columbia is $7,500.

The University of Kansas, founded at Lawrence in 1859, has eighteen professors and four hundred and fifty students.

The juniors of the Western University of Pittsburg have successfully presented "William Tell" in German to the people of that city.

Oxford has thrown off the mantle of conservatism and finally allowed women to attend the lectures on history and literature. - [Cornell Sun.

Walker Hall, Amherst, which was burned last winter, is being rebuilt and the annex to the library is nearing completion. The latter is an iron building.

Yale College gives instruction in drawing to fifty young ladies, and counts them in its catalogue, in its summary of students. Query, Is Yale co-educational?

The British Foot-Ball Association of New York has reorganized. The club will commence practice on the Polo Grounds in a fortnight, and on the 18th prox. they will play the Britannia Foot-Ball Club of Montreal a match game at the Polo Grounds.

AIDS IN TELLING VACATION YARNS.Never speak of yachting unless you had at least three masts broken out of your yacht.

You have no hunting experience to count unless you have been hugged by a grizzly.

Don't speak of taking a long walk unless you have been to Canada.

No blood-curdling stories will receive applause unless they be of marching tramps five miles to the nearest settlement,

Keep quiet about any visit to the seaside unless you have rescued fair female seminary girls from drowning - Howe street acquaintances preferred.

Talk not of a trip to the Alps unless you slid off from a glacier; nor of a trip to England unless you shook hands with the Prince of Wales.

Do not mention Egypt if you were not fortunate enough to get waylaid by a native.

Let China sink into oblivion if you didn't meet Mun Yew.

But above all don't say "mash" unless you can count up twenty-five, and can bring good proof for each one in the shape of painted tambourines and wall-banners. - [Yale News.