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Notes from Other Colleges.

The Inter-University-College Tournament has given us an interest in the other centres of the New Zealand University which three years ago had been impossible. Many of our students have now a personal interest in the affairs of our sister Colleges, and we are glad to be able to publish some details of their work.

Canterbury College welcomed its victorious representatives home by means of a Social and Dance, held in College Hall. As soon as this excitement was over the College set about making Mr. Mott's visit a success, and, says our correspondent, he was a "refreshing change from the somewhat emotional type of religious leader that America often produces." Diploma Day is to be celebrated by a concert and dance.

The Canterbury College Football Club has again entered Senior ranks, and has altogether three teams. We hope that she will revive the glory of the days when Cresswell, Marshall. Craddock and Bean were names to conjure with. E. Rice is captain of the senior team. Though the backs are uneven the forwards are heavy and improving—and the team, which has already given a good account of itself, should be an excellent one by the end of the season.

Otago University is rejoicing in the prospect of enjoying the generosity of the Presbyterian Church in the form of a Residential College. It is hoped to provide rooms for 25 to 30 students as a beginning, and it is expected that 100 will ultimately be provided for. Not only students of theology, but men of Arts and Science, Medicine, and Mines, will be able to avail themselves of the privileges of this refuge.

The proceedings at the annual meeting of the Students' Association seem to have been more exciting than business-like. Light gave way on several occasions, and the speeches were enriched by passing comment. We congratulate Mr. P. Buck on his election to the Presidency.

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The Otago University Football Club appears to be in a flourishing condition. It has three teams, a strong first, and a substantial credit balance. This is joy indeed.

We regret to hear that Parkinson, who showed much promise at the Easter games, and won his place in the first fifteen, has received an injury to his knee which has ended his football for the season.

Auckland University College has quite recovered from its noble exertions of Easter-time. The Ladies' Hockey Club which has been for three seasons a great success under the direction of Professor Tubbs, has a large increase in membership, and a very successful season is expected. (Where are the Victoria College ladies?) A. mens' hockey club has been formed, but football is still extinct, owing to the slavish and, as it seams to us, idiotic way in which the Auckland Rugby Union adheres to the District system.

The Capping Day festivities are to take a form similar to those of last year. Degrees are conferred in the Choral Hall, after which the students are entertained by the ladies in the Ladies' Common Room, where tea is provided in honour of the lady graduates. Then there usually follows a practice of Capping songs and an impromptu dance. On the next night there is a Graduation Supper which has previously been preceded by a Students' Costume Torchlight Procession, a function which has been abandoned this year in consequence of the delicate attentions of the Auckland street arabs. On the following Saturday there is to be a Capping Social, open to students and their friends, which is to take the form of a kind of conversazione, enlivened by Capping songs and a parody operetta written by two students.