Dr. Wadsworth lectures at 2 P. M. today in the Museum of Comparative Zoology on "The General and Microscopic Characters of Lencite, Tourmaline, Andalusite, Fibrolite, Cyanite, Titanite and Staurolite."

A gentleman connected with the New York Herald recently told a friend that there were constantly ten or fifteen Yale graduates "hanging around" the Tribune office looking for a position on that paper. College graduates do not seem to be in demand on the metropolitan press.

A Virginia paper says that William and Mary College at Williamsburg has entirely gone down. Last year there was only one student, this year none. The president has a splendid residence just out of town, and the buildings are quiet and lonely looking and seem to hide within their walls much of wisdom, but this is all that is left of the once proud seat of learning.

The Chess Club of Columbia College it is said has thus far defeated the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Harvard College, and now adds a game with Yale to an unbroken record. Challenges to engage in similar games have been sent to Princeton and Williams Colleges, but have as yet been unanswered.

All of last year's Yale crew are now in training with the exception of Storrs who has graduated. In addition to these men, Beck, Merritt and Souther, '84, Cutler, '85 and Cowles, '86, new men, are candidates. It is expected that before the week is over five more will enter, so that there will be two eights training. The men appear on the track at 10 o'clock each morning and run a certain distance, to be changed each day, and at half-past ten will begin work on the rowing weights.

Mr. Howells' new novel, "A Woman's Reason," which will be begun in the February number of the Century Magazine, promises to resemble some of his earlier books rather than his last. The first instalment opens the story in Boston among familiar streets - the Common, with its "Brewer Fountain and its four seasons of severe drouth" - and concerns itself with a Miss Helen Harkness, who "danced through Harvard," (mystifying statement) was graduated, and proposed to by several of the men of her class, whom she judged were all silly, and accordingly refused.