Ten men are trying for the freshman tug-of-war team.

Cabot and Blodgett, '82, are forming tug-of-war teams.

A large number of ladies visited the gymnasium yesterday.

Robinson, the trainer, will have nearly forty men in training in about two weeks.

The subscription book for "Sketches from the Harvard Lampoon" is now at Sever's.

Dr. John Lord is to deliver a course of twenty historical lectures before the Dartmouth seniors.

Antioch College, of which Ex-President Hill was once president, has suspended for lack of funds.

A brief description of the Greek play - "The most tragical tragedy ever tragedized by any company of tragedians."

Prof. Proctor has ordered his ascension robes, and predicts that the world will certainly be destroyed by a comet in 1897.

President Warren of Boston University is about to go to England to visit and investigate the English colleges and universities.

The instructor in Chemistry 1 devoted a large part of the recitation hour yesterday to explaining the questions on examination papers.

Representatives of Bates College are in Boston endeavoring to get its endowment raised from its present amount, $150,000, to $250,000.

Practice for the university boat race has begun on the river Cam by the Cambridge crew, and on the Iffley by the Oxford crew, coached by Mr. Kindersley.

The instructor in Greek 2, partly a lecture course, has informed the members of the course that they will hereafter be expected to be prepared to translate.

A student inquires whether the account of the washing of the clothes by the Trojan women in the "Iliad" is really the first historical mention of the Troy laundry.