MR. E. J. WENDELL, '82, has been elected editor of the sporting column of the Crimson in the place of Mr. Kane, '82, resigned.

IT is hoped that Professor Cooke's new course of pictorial lectures will be largely attended. He will give the first one March 9.

AT the base-ball convention to be held at Springfield to-morrow, Messrs. Townsend, '80, and Winsor, '80, will represent Harvard.

PROFESSORS Child and Norton have been chosen delegates from Cambridge to the Republican Convention to be held to-morrow.

THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES. - The Oxford crew has an average weight of 171 1/2 lbs., while the Cambridge crew weighs only 169 lbs. The number of undergraduates at Oxford is steadily increasing. This year it reaches 2,814. Last year 291 took the degree of M.A.

THE class crew of '81 are rowing in pair-oars on the river. '81 and '82 are the only classes whose crews have yet appeared on the water.

AS Harvard is likely to be challenged by Columbia this season in tennis, it would be well to form a club now and begin practice as soon as possible.

THERE will be a tug of war in the Gymnasium meeting on March 13, open to teams of five men each from each of the classes and the Law School.

OFFICERS of the K. N. for the second half-year: President, A. A. Wyman; Vice-President, A. Tonks; Secretary, F. H. Harvey; Treasurer, R. Coit.

THE University has received within eleven years, in donations and bequests, $3,000,000. Of this sum Professor Alexander Agassiz has given $230,000.

THE first nine of the Hasty Pudding from '81 is as follows: Brandegee, Atkinson, W. R. Thayer, C. A. Coolidge, Godkin, Peters, Slater, Upham, R. Sturgis.

IT is reported that our professors are to have larger salaries. Professors will receive $4,500 instead of $4,000, and assistant professors $3,000 instead of $2,000.

MICHIGAN University has 1,367 students, - the largest number of any school in the country. Harvard, with 1,350, and Yale, with 753, rank next in the number enrolled.

MR. NOTMAN has sent the following notice to the Crimson: "Students who have not decided in regard to class pictures will please do so immediately and return the accepted proofs. Photographic lists and sample albums will be ready in a day or two."