The much talked-of Thanksgiving vacation will consist, as we learn at the office, of only one day.
The co-operative errand boy is to collect second-hand books from the members in College House today. Collections from the other dormitories will be made next week.
A prominent issue in the Cambridge municipal election rests on the claims of the rival street railroad corporations the Charles River Company and the Cambridge Railroad Company.
We hear on the best authority that the Corporation are willing and anxious to appoint a director of field sports after the example of the Yale authorities. Though the salary will probably not be over a thousand dollars it will not be expected that the director occupy his whole time in the duties of his office but that he will be chosen from either the Law School or the Medical School.
A dinner will be given by the freshman class on Saturday, Dec. 1st. A book has been placed at Bartlett's for the names of those who wish to attend, and it is desirable that a large number be secured. The price will be $4.00, which includes dinner for subscriber and one Yale man. There must be fifty names by Friday at 5 P. M.
Committee CHARLES CARROLL,Committee GORDON DEXTER,Committee GEO. HIGGINSON.The N. Y. Times says of the report of Supt. Damrell on the boat-house accident :-"There is no attempt made in this report to fix the responsibility on any person or persons, but simply to state the physical causes which brought about the accident, and to show how such accidents may be avoided in the future. It was at first intended to examine at length into the question of responsibility, but after much deliberation on the part of those interested this was given up. The reasons for this abandonment were, first, the difficulty in finding any responsible person who would devote the necessary time to a prolonged inquiry, and who would be willing to run the risk of involving himself in possible controversial or legal complications; secondly, the impossibility of compelling the attendance of witnesses and of taking testimony under oath, and finally the probably barren result to be obtained by such an inquiry."