It is expected that there will be a small surplus in the college financial account, the current year.
The library greatly needs a fund amounting to at least $400,000, the in-income to be applied to its support.
The notices claiming the right of possession to the college yard, were removed yesterday from the posts at the entrances.
Prof. Ames began his instruction in Torts yesterday at the Law School as successor to Prof. Holmes. The recitation on Wednesday will hereafter be held at 2. P. M.
Mr. William M. Davis lectured at the Lowell Institute last night on "Storms of the United States and the Western Tornadoes."
The Yale Record pleasantly commends the Inter-Collegiate Press Association. Yale, we hope, will soon be represented in the association.
Mr. John W. Alexander is to paint a portrait of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes for Harvard College, according to the New York Herald.
The section in philosophy 5 will soon begin he study of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." The translation to be used is the one in Bohn's library.
Class Secretary Miles of '82 has sent to the members of the class a memorial notice of the death of Mr. Lamprey, a former classmate, who died last fall.
A freshman who has recently severed the ties that bound him to the total abstinence society, recklessly demanded a glass of "Charlotte Russe" of the waiter at Adams' the other night.
Mr. Frank D. Millet, the artist, who designed the costumes for the Greek play, has been engaged to make sketches for new Roman dresses for John McCullough, in which historical accuracy will be aimed at.
On Wednesdays the freshman recitation in Advanced Greek I. will occur from 9 to 10 in Sever 18, instead of from 10 to 11 in Sever 29 as heretofore. On other days the recitations will take place as before.
It is admitted that there is a spirit of rivalry between Harvard and Yale "which often carries the students of both colleges to excess," but it is denied that there is a "quarrel waged with bitterness." The Harvard HERALD says that our Chambers street neighbor, in dealing with this question, has "made a mountain out of a mole hill," and we incline to the same opininion. It is too much to assume that wild remarks made by individual students represent the sentiments of the entire body of students of Harvard and Yale. - [Turf, Field and Farm.
The girls in Lasell Seminary at Auburndale, who have been taking lessons in dress-making, cookery, etc., along with the ologies and languages, are to have this and next month lectures on practical banking and business matters, and will soon be asked to grapple with the mysteries of plumbing and home sanitation.