The correspondent of the Traveller hits upon a very apt characterization of the Yale man: "Energetic and callous," he calls him, while the Harvard type, he thinks, is "dignified and indifferent."

The senior crew has commenced regular training. Yesterday the following men rowed: 1, Ranney; 2, Binney; 3, Baxter; 4, H. B. Cabot; 5, Codman; 6, Hubbard; 7, E. T. Cabot; 8, Coolidge.

The fourth chamber concert will be given in Sever Hall tonight by the Beethoven Club. The programme is: Quartette in F major, Schumann; Andante Cantabile, Tschaikowski; Quartette in E minor, op. 59, Beethoven.

The Harpers will shortly publish a volume on "English Literature in the Eighteenth Century," by T. S. Perry, recently instructor in English at Harvard. The volume, we understand, contains substantially the lectures on the subject delivered before the college last year by Mr. Perry.

One of the French instructors, in assigning the semi-annual marks took the amount of knowledge in French which a man is supposed to have at the end of the freshman year as a basis, and counting from that as zero, marked the papers according as a man showed a gain or a loss since that time.

"The conduct of Harvard in the matter of the race," cries the Record, "has been so arbitrary, distrustful, almost surly, that we think that the large element of our college which fears that Harvard wishes to frighten us into conceding to them undue advantages, is almost justified in its harsh supposition."

Prof. Norton in returning the examination books to the members of one of his sections yesterday remarked that, "the system of marks as at present in vogue in Harvard College was one which he should be glad to see abolished as soon as possible. This system substitutes a false object in the mind of the student, as it is impossible that he should not be influenced by the desire to attain a distinction on which rest the prizes of college life." He was in favor of the instructor's forming a general idea of the value of a man's work which cannot be measured by numbers.