There will be extra matinees at the theatres Christmas Day.

Vacation at Princeton lasts from Dec. 20 to Jan. 3.

The vacation at Yale is from December 21 to Jan. 11, three weeks.

The Lampoon will be out this week on Friday or Saturday.

The next number of the Advocate will be issued Friday, January 5.

Henry James Sr., father of the novelist and of Prof. William James, is dead.

Mr. Oscar E. Perry, '83, is now connected with the Holyoke Machine Co. in this State.

A pleasant feature of the chapel exercises yesterday was a solo by Mr. L. B. McCagg.

The proposed Co-operative Society at Yale does not meet with encouragement from the students.

The approach of vacation is already foreshadowed by the diminished number of students attending recitations.

The new Yale song book, with a specially written appendix, has been adopted by the Adelphi at Williston.

Rev. George A. Gordon, who has been invited to become pastor of the Old South Church, is a graduate of Harvard.

President Porter's new book on the poem "Evangeline" has made its appearance. It is a limited subscription edition.

Mr. C. P. Perin had a stroke of apoplexy Tuesday morning and is now lying very low at Mrs. Brown's boarding house.

Another "poco" has invaded the college yard. He adopts the very pleasant method of accosting students as they leave the recitation halls.