THE current expenses of the new Gymnasium will be very large, and it is to be regretted that no provision for meeting them has been made. An endowment is needed.

NOTWITHSTANDING the unfavorable weather, one hundred and fifty persons, including several ladies of the Annex, were present, Tuesday evening, at Professor Child's reading from King Lear.

More Janitorism. JANITOR (to an unoffending Sub-Fresh., who has asked where his brother, Simpkins, '81, rooms), "Ain't 81 rooms in the buildin'. What yer givin' us, hey?" Exit, proud of having foiled his adversary. (Fact.)

A GENTLEMAN writes to the New York World, to request that the Yale-Princeton football match, which is to be played in Hoboken, the 27th, be played in the morning, as, if he goes to see it in the afternoon, it will interfere with his Thanksgiving dinner.

THE following have been elected into the Natural History Society: Field, Thomsen, Winlock, Eustis, Jones, Washburn, of '80; Worcester, Lane, Reynolds, Lovering, Huntington, of '81; and H. E. Leavitt, Thacher, Waring, Thaxter, of '82.

OUR civil attendant, the bursar,

Grows steadily worser and worser:

"No one to a janitor

Shall use profan'ty, or

Find fault with a goody, or curse her."

MR. S. H. SCUDDER'S "Catalogue of Scientific Works" is now completed, and has been published by the Directors of the College Library. The entries in the Catalogue represent over seventy thousand volumes.

WEATHER permitting, the Bicycle Club will meet Saturday, November 22, at 2 P.M., in front of the Unitarian Church. New members may join the club, and get their shingles and keys at 16 Little's, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 1 30 to 2 P.M.

THE following men are trying for the Freshman crew: Crawford, Burch, Endicott, Breck, Kip, C. M. Hammond, Lane, Cary, Hall, Bemis, J. M. Hall, and Jennings. They row five hundred strokes every afternoon at 4.30, and then take a run of two miles.

SCENE IN THE YARD. - Inquisitive old lady, visiting the College, to obliging Freshman. - What do you call that yaller church?

Obliging Freshman. - Appleton Chapel.