The winter concert of the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality will occur Dec. 15.

The two batteries of the University nine are working daily in the cage.

Manager Mutrie said that the attendance at the game last Thursday was the largest the Polo grounds ever held.

Corcoran of this year's Chicago nine demands a salary of $4,000 for the coming season.

There will probably be an examination in Sophomore Rhetoric a week from Friday for the whole class with the exception of the first section.

Yale's record in foot-ball for this year is 365 points to 2, Harvard being the only college that scored against her eleven.

The faculty and corporation of Princeton are considering the advisability of making gymnastic exercise compulsory for the two lower classes.

The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament. Special subject; Genesis and the Monuments. Professor Lyon in Upper Divinity today at twelve.

Prof. J. W. White has been called away from Cambridge and may not return until after Christmas. His courses are at present conducted by Professor Dyer.

This evening at 7.30, in Sever 11, Mr. Lutz will give a German Reading for beginners. He will read "Unverhofft Kommt oft" and "Der Eine oder der Andere," both of which are found in Otto's Introductory German Reader.

The young ladies of Girton College, in England, are about to act a Greek play in one of their own buildings, no member of the male sex being admitted to witness the interesting performance.

The Toppan prize of $150 has been awarded to Dr. Edward Channing of the class of '78, instructor in history, for an essay on "Town and County Government in the North American Colonies."

Messrs. Paul A. Garry and Co., importers and dealers in antique and modern stationery, Nos. 10 and 12 Province Court. Boston, have been added to the list of affiliated tradesmen of the Cooperative society. A discount of 10 to 15 per cent. will be given by the firm.

It will be interesting to note that the following amount of food is daily consumed at Memorial : 110 loaves of bread, 1200 rolls, 2 barrels of flour, 720 to 850 qts. of milk, 90 pounds of butter 130 pounds of sugar, 50 pounds of oatmeal, 35 pounds of cracked wheat, 1,000 pounds of beef (when used twice a day), 500 pounds of mutton, and 640 pounds of poultry.

The N. Y. Clipper says that the recent action of the Harvard Committee in first prohibiting the contest and then permitting it under changed rules repressive of vicious "slugging," unfair "tackling," etc., advertised it, and was the real cause of the enormous crowd which witnessed the Yale game on Thanksgiving day.

The London Daily News said of Mr. Lowell's candidacy for the Lord Rectorship of the University of St. Andrew's : "Every one will be pleased if the St. Andrew's men elect Mr. Lowell. The choice will be all literary, and not in the least political. The election of Mr. Lowell will be a graceful compliment to a distinguished scholar, humorist and University man, from a country which is always receiving English visitors with the warmest welcome. Mr. Lowell's charming gifts as a speaker cannot but be welcome in the holder of an office, where to make a speech is almost the only public duty."

The college carpenters are removing the wrecked balcony which has stood untouched so long at the boat house awaiting any desired investigation. No new one will be built until spring, by which time it will be known whether the old arrangement of balcony and floats must be restored for a considerable period of future service, or only temporarily, until a new boathouse can be built. This last is one of the greatest needs in the line of Harvard athletics, but little hope is entertained of being able to secure it at present. [Ex.