The corner stone of the new gymnasium at Amherst was laid October 13.

Saturday recitations at Cornell and Bowdoin have been given up.

There was a cut in Fine Arts 3 yesterday.

The tug-of-war teams are already practising at Yale.

It is rumored that a club for clay pigeon shooting is to be started here.

New double doors have been placed in Memorial at the entrance to the dining hall.

The next excursion in N. H. 4 will be on Monday to Squantum. Train leaves the Old Colony station at 2.15.

The candidates for the freshman crew are rowing by tens, using the substitute seats.

The Amherst base-ball team will be coached by Capt Morrill of the Bostons this winter.

There will be an important meeting and rehearsal of the Pierian Sodality tonight at Roberts Hall at 7.30.

A member of the Bicycle Club proposes to try a Star bicycle, i. e., with the little wheel in front.

Mr. Hardwick, '84, is getting well so fast that he expects to be back by the beginning of next week.

Cambridge has a new college. It is named Selcvyn and is the first added to the university during the present century. [Ex.

There will be another mathematical seminar today in U. 19 at 4 P. M. The subjects for discussion are posted on the bulletin boards.

We have seen a letter from Mr. George M. Hendee, in which he states that he will not enter Yale in the spring, but will try to enter the class of '88 at the summer entrance examinations.

Columbia has a five cent lunch room in one of the college buildings.

Mr. Wendell will return junior themes with criticisms, in Sever 11, as follows : Section 1 (Anderson to Lathman) Thursday, Oct. 25, from 2 till 4.30 P. M.

The third ten of the Everett Athenaeum consists of the following men of '86 : Howes, Fullerton, Fraser, Hight, Bolster, S. D. Richardson, Noble, Woodbury, Mallony and Carpenter.

The freshman athletic meeting, postponed on account of the rain, will come off today at 4 P. M. The handicap meeting will take place on Saturday at 2.30 P. M.

Scene-New Law School. Instructor : "Can you tell me what Roman Law says on this subject. Student : (who finds acoustic properties of the room very bad) "Who, sir?"

All those owning bicycles can join the Bicycle Club either at 10 Grays, or 16 Weld. It is hoped that a large number of riders will go to Newburyport on Saturday. The ride will be taken slowly and the roads are good all the way.

Mr. Mead, '87, is, we are glad to say, improving, but the doctor says he will not be out of danger for two or three days. The injury to his head had proved more serious even than that to his chest.

Germany has twenty-one universities, of which ten are in Prussia. The total number of students attending this summer was 25,084, being an increase of 1260 over the number of last summer. Of the above 7000 are Americans.

The required class rhetorical work at Yale is one essay and rhetoric in the freshman year, eight essays in the sophomore year, four or five written debates in the Junior year, and four or five written exercises and off-hand speeches in the senior year. [Oberlin Review.

At a meeting of the Finance Club the following gentlemen were elected members : G. Abbot, B. E. Bates, H. W. Bliss, G. W. Brown, R. G. Brown, J. J. Chapman, C. R. Clapp, J. M. Codman, J. R. Coolidge, W. F. Dana, T. L. Frothingham, W. L. R. Gifford, H. N. Glover, C. S. Hamlin, E. A. Hibbard, H. Hubbard, C. C. King, J. W. Morss, W. B. Noble, E. G. Rand, E. J. Sartelle, E. F. Warren, S. S. Watson, B. W. Wellington, F. S. Whitwell.

S. NORRIS, JR., Secy.