NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The vice-principalship of Newham College, with the charge of the north hall, which will be resigned by Mrs. Henry Sidgwick in October next, has been offered to and accepted by Miss Helen Gladstone.

The College of Notre Dame challenges the claim of Michigan University to the honor of having first produced a Latin play in America. The former institution presented "The Captives" of Plautus three years ago.

Chang Tsung Liang, an attache of the Chinese legation, who passed through Denver Thursday on his way to Washington, said that China will return fifty students to American colleges, having discovered that their removal was a mistake.

Edward T. Smith, a law student at Charlotte, has begun a suit against Olivet College for $10,000 damages, claimed to have been sustained by the action of the faculty in suspending him from the college on false charges. Smith claims that the faculty undertook to extort money from him in settlement of a groundless charge, and, not succeeding, suspended him and he was obliged to leave school. It is understood that he will also begin suits against two or three members of the faculty personally, unless their further services shall be dispensed with by the board of trustees.

The School of Art, so long talked of at Princeton, is to be really established and made ready for students by the beginning of another year.

Students at Cambridge University are not allowed to row on the river unless they present certificates of ability to swim from their parents or from the "University Swimming Club."

But, though admitting that manly public sentiment is the surest, if not the only means of checking intemperance among college students, we hold that it lies mainly with the faculty and officers of a college to create, or, at all events, to promote the growth of such a spirit. College students, however anxious they may be to decorate themselves with the name of men, are +++ general, too young to be expected to assume the burdens of manhood, or even thoroughly understand its duties. They are still in the plastic state. During the four years of the college course, habits are formed which, whether good or bad, will be likely to accompany them through life. "Lead us not into temptation" is, therefore, for them a peculiarly appropriate prayer. - [Scholastic.

A momentous change has now been inaugurated in the external arrangements and in the inner life of the University of Cambridge. Formerly the university was little more than a name. The individual colleges were everything. Now that is changed. The university is to provide professors at the cost of the colleges, and all the students will be forced to attend their lectures. But the greatest change of all is the abolition of the enforced celibacy of the fellows. Other changes are the almost entire extinction of clerical fellowships, the separation of endowments from special schools and from the more private and personal ends designed by the original donor, the taxation of the colleges for the founding of sub-professorships or readerships, the suppression of religious and church influences, and the scantiest allowances for the services in the college chapels.