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.

The Woman's Journal thinks that in "the present epidemic of college rowdyism," only the co-educational institutions escape the contagion. Co-education did not save Cornell.

Pippins, solemnly warned that his present course will surely shorten his days, says his consolation is that it will at least lengthen his nights. Elect another course, Pippins!

Respectfully submitted to German 6: "Wer hat die grosste Hand, Schiller oder Geothe?" Goethe, freilich." "Und warum:" "Weil Schiller's 'Handschuh' geht nicht ueber Goethe's 'Faust.'"

The class committee has placed a subscription book at Bartlett's, to ascertain as soon as may be, whether fifty men desire heliotype albums. Information as to the cost may be obtained from the circulars and samples to be seen at Pachs' studio.

Beginning with Monday, Feb. 19, all members of the senior class who have not made photograph appointments, or have not kept those previously made, are requested to appoint as soon as convenient at Pachs' studio on Cambridge street.

Prof. F. J. Child is preparing a handsome edition of English and Scotch ballads, to be issued in eight parts, of two hundred and fifty pages each. This is a task which is said to have never been performed in this country. Prof. Child's name is a surety that the work will be done ably.

Now cometh the young man who purchaseth the admission ticket for the frivolous showhouse, for a shekel that is of the value of one dollar, and wanteth to sell it to his companions for skekels of the value of three dollars. When the prophet saith, "put money in thy purse," he meaneth not that thou shouldst strive to found a national bank in thy vest pocket. Selah!

The Peabody Museum is soliciting subscriptions to a fund to be devoted to the further collection of specimens of American archaeology. The need is very urgent, for exploration in this country is being carried on so rapidly that soon all the best specimens of aboriginal civilization will have been collected; and at present our museum has no funds whatever for making collections. Theodore Lyman, J. C. Phillips and Stephen Salisbury head the list with $500 each.

These wicked college students bring perfect godsends in the shape of subjects for editorials to the Post and other virtuous papers of the country. The recent Yale rush will be good for a column probably. Another case must not be overlooked by the Post in this connection. Last Tuesday a party of sophomores of Lafayette University, marching with a band to a banquet, were interrupted by a discordant band of freshmen with tin-horns. Thereupon, a rush took place, finally resulting in the arrest of three of the party by the police.

W. D. Howells has in press a new poem, the subject of which is located in Italy and has to do with art and the times of Titian. It is an experiment in hexameters.

OFFICE FURNITURE. Of Roll-Top Desks, Chairs and Tables there is now an immense assortment at PAINE'S manufactory on Canal street.