OXFORD is to have a professorship of Archaeology.

IT seems that the Law School will have no crew this season.

THE three new bridges will be put down at the Boat House next week.

STRAWBERRIES were to be had at Memorial before they appeared at any hotel in Boston.

THERE is talk of sending a petition to the Faculty to lengthen the time for the Annuals.

CANOEING seems likely to be very popular this year, as several new canoes are ordered.

AT the Ladies' Night of the Papyrus Club, Mr. Ticknor read a poem, entitled "From Afar."

THE Crimson acknowledges the receipt of Mr. Rene Bache's cartoon of "The Three Fates."

THREE new singles are being built for the Boat Club, and more will be provided if necessary.

THE race for the Junior single sculls promises to be very good, from the large number of entries.

ALL those who have omitted examinations to pass should read the notice on the bulletin board.

THE Club Boat House is to be divided off from the University Boat House, which has been enlarged inside.

ALL transactions at the Boat House, such as hiring lockers, boats, &c., can be made there with George Smyth.

ONLY 94 Freshmen have joined the Athletic Association. 150 is the usual number.

THE attitude of the Boston press towards Harvard is in marked contrast to that of the New York papers towards Columbia.

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."