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.

Mr. F. W. Putnam lectures at the Peabody Museum at 3 P. M. today on "The exploration of a group of altar mounds in the valley of the Little Miami river, Ohio."

The coming of the Christmas season is announced by the usual number of circulars distributed in the college rooms. A very neat calendar was given out yesterday by Amee Brothers.

Princeton also is agitating co-operation and hopes to see it adopted there, since Harvard's experiment proves so much of a success.

Mr. Fred Balch, assistant steward of Memorial, left Cambridge yesterday to accept a position under the Pullman Palace Car Co. He will make his headquarters in Montreal.

Prof. Lyon lectures at 12 M. today in Divinity Hall Upper Lecture Room, on Assyrian Antiquities. The special subject is: The Izdubar Legends (continued). Chaldean Account of the Deluge.

Sophomore Rhetoric examination. - The Monday sections (Mr. Drennan's I. and II.) in Upper Mass.; Section III., which recites Friday, 10 to 11 (Mr. Wendell's), in U. E. R.; Section IV., which recites Friday, 11 to 12 (Mr. Wendell's), in Lower Mass.