Instead of Prof. Hill's lecture in Sophomore Rhetoric Thursday, Dec. 21, at 2 P. M., there will be a one-hour examination. The Monday sections (Mr. Drennan's I. and II.) will meet in Upper Mass.; Section III., which recites Friday, 10 to 11, (Mr. Wendell's) will meet in U. E. R.; Section IV., which recites Friday, 11 to 12 (Mr. Wendell's), will meet in Lower Mass.
Mr. E. T. Cabot was yesterday elected captain of the senior crew, vice Mr. Burch, resigned.
Professor Pennell, of Phillips Exeter Academy, has handed in his resignation, to take effect at the end of the present term.
Hobart Ladies' College in Tasmania, Australasia, is advertising for a lady principal. Now is a chance for the annex maiden.
Professor Dole, according to an interview published in the Yale News, "began his college career (!) in the winter of '45-6 at Harvard."
They have a special class of examinations at London University, called "external." opened to those not connected with the university.
A sophomore who evidently does not belong to the Harvard Total Abstinence Society, recently sent down an order at Memorial for the brandy that wasn't in the pudding sauce.
A number of associations auxiliary to the Longfellow Memorial Association of Cambridge are being organized throughout the country. Last week influential associations were formed in San Francisco and Baltimore.
Princeton hopes, through MacKintosh, who has entered the college from Lafayette, to take some firsts in running at the next Mott Haven meeting. She considers Brooks of Yale, and Baker, '86, of Harvard her chief competitors.
George M. Hendee, the sixteen-year-old bicycling phenomenon, contemplates going to England in the spring with a view to getting races with wheelmen there. He stands 5 feet 10 1/2 inches in height, and weighs 156 lbs. Mr. Hendee is to enter Yale shortly.
The "Seminary of Our Lady of Angels" seems to have lost its good opinion of Harvard, on account of the character of the prescribed English examination required here. The paper of the seminary calls the pure air of Cambridge "the infidelity-breathing atmosphere of Harvard."
"Grammar," says the News, "is one of the most popular of Harvard's electives." Our E. C. should not omit to state that reading, writing and arithmetic are also popular here.