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BREVITIES.

POOR Yale, 11 to 3, and the day before Class Day.

THE Freshman Crew left Monday, July 1, for Owasco Lake.

THERE were 1 060 plates laid for the Dinner of the Alumni Association.

THE class subscription fund has yielded this year another instalment of $20,000.

THE "old war horses" did not "do themselves as proud" as was anticipated by the Yale News.

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THE latest press metaphor is the following: "The Harvard boat-house vomited forth its new shell."

No crackers awoke the calm reveries of loungers beneath "the elms of good old Yale" on Monday evening.

A PAMPHLET record of the Class of 1878, accurate and complete, is for sale at Sever's. Price, 10 cents, prepaid.

THERE were 245 candidates examined for admission to the next Freshman class, of whom 119 applied under the new method.

THE balloting on Commencement Day to fill the vacancies in the Board of Overseers resulted in the following choice: Alexander McKenzie, Le Baron Russell, R. M. Hodges, Robert D. Smith, and Charles R. Codman.

GROUND between Appleton Chapel and Gore Hall has been marked off for the excavation of the foundations for Sever Hall. The building will stand so far back from University Hall that one of the houses on Quincy. Street will have to be removed to give place to it.

"OUR Nine, chafed by the severe criticism of senseless writers, and ridiculed by would-be authorities on base-ball matters, has proven itself capable of deeds surpassing all the former triumphs which Yale has gained on the ball-field." - Yale News, May 27, 1878. Amended June 24, 26, 29: 11 vs. 3, 9 vs. 2, 16 vs. 3.

THE following is the batting average of the University Base-Ball Champions:-

A. B. IB. %B. H.

Tyng 120 36 .300

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