Note and Comment.

"It occurred to more than one of those who listened to the manly and modest remarks of Professor Edward S. Dana at the Yale meeting in this city last night, that when the Yale corporation is obliged, as it must inevitably be in a few years, to choose a new president, it would certainly do well to consider Professor Dana. President Porter has made a most admirable and successful president, but President Porter will be seventy-four years old in December, and the burden of college administration must ere long rest on younger shoulders. Professor Dana is a graduate of recent times, his class having graduated in 1870, and he showed in his remarks last evening and in his personal conversation a decided grasp of the problems which now press to the front at New Haven." [Springfield Union.