CABINET S. The Cabinet of Mineralogy, which, in addition to the Franckfort Cabinet, includes a large collection of choice minerals, and the Cabinets of Geology and of Natural History, are extensive, affording the means of satisfying the necessities and gratifying the taste of students in these departments. The SHURTLEFF CABINET, collected by the late SIMEON SHURTLEFF, M.D., is very valuable and important. It contains eight thousand species of shells, represented by eighty thousand specimens; six hundred and fifty birds; a very large collection of botanical specimens; about a thousand coins; and other interesting objects. Dr. Cressy's CABINET OF COMPARATIVE OSTEOLOGY, now deposited in Observatory Hall, contains a selection of crania and a series of osseous preparations, mounted on blackboard, illustrating the general plan and special details of structure in the vertebrata. To this cabinet, additions of choice specimens will be constantly made. GENERAL INFORMATION. Parents and guardians are informed that daily bills are kept of the merit and demerit of each student; the former denoting the excellences of each in his recitations and other college exercises, the latter, the deficiencies and delinquencies of each in his several duties. The President will furnish an exhibit of these records in any particular case, when requested by the student or his friends. In cases where private and public admonitions have been given without effect, a statement of the bill of demerit will be forwarded to the friends of such delinquent scholars. This will be the last step of discipline preceding the final one of suspension or dismission. The discipline of the institution is eminently moral and paternal. No student guilty of gaming, drinking intoxicating liquors, or other vices, or who is habitually absent from his room, or disorderly, can be allowed to remain a member of the college. The time appropriated to vacations is believed to be ample for the purpose of relaxation from study; and in view of the unfavor able effect of all absences, either at the commencement or any other period of the term, upon the standing and proficiency of the student, the faculty earnestly request that parents and guardians will in no way encourage, or even sanction, such absences without very urgent reasons. TRIENNIAL CATALOGUE AND OBITUARY NOTICES. Obituary notices of deceased graduates of the University are published annually. All persons who can supply information appropriate to the future editions of the Triennial Catalogue or Obituary Record, are urgently requested to communicate the same to the President, or the Professor of Latin. ALUMNI RECORD. At a meeting of the Alumni, a resolution was adopted requesting information from the Alumni relative to their residence, occupation, and also such other facts in their personal history as would properly be entered on the Alumni Record. Information relative to distant and deceased Alumni is solicited. Letters may be addressed to ORANGE JUDD, Esq., Editor of the AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, New York; to Professor CALVIN S. HARRINGTON; or to the PRESIDENT. In return, a copy of the Catalogue will be sent. Calendar for Heademic Year. 1869. Sept. 9.- Fall Term commenced. Dec. 13.1 Dec. 15. 1870. Jan. 6. Mar. 21. Fall Examination will commence. Fall Term will close. WINTER VACATION. - Winter Term will commence. Winter Examination will commence. Mar. 23. — Junior Exhibition. July 17. July 19. Anniversary of the Missionary Lyceum. Examination of Candidates for admission. July 18 and 19. — Anniversaries of the Literary Societies. July 19. July 20. July 20. Meeting of the Joint Board of Trustees and Visitors Business Meeting and Anniversary of the Alumni Re-unions of the Classes of 1845, '55, 60, 63, and |