The winter games of the Institute of Technology occur today.

Prof. Child will begin a course of readings on Monday evening, March 12, at Sever 11.

Since 1728 there have appeared five Josiah Quincys in the list of Harvard College alumni.

Folsom, '81, visited the gymnasium yesterday, and practised a little while with the nine in the cage.

Curtis J. Guild, '81, has some verses entitled "A Serenade" in this week's Life, illustrated by Rene Bache.

J. C. Morse, '81, has been elected president of the newly formed Commercial Base-Ball Association of Boston.

Dr. Royce will give four lectures on the "Religious Aspect of Philosophy" at Sever 11, beginning on Thursday evening, March 1.

A cry is going up for fire-escapes on college dormitories, although the ordinary college boy is not easily entrapped by fire or anything else. - [N. Y. Times.

The inter-collegiate athletic convention meets at the Fifth-avenue Hotel, New York, today. Harvard's delegates are G. E. Lowell, '83, and T. J. Coolidge, Jr., '84.

The March Century will contain a plea by Mrs. Runkle for the higher education of women, with special reference to the recent movement toward admitting women to Columbia College.

We learn that the Dining Association is to have a "headship" given it. At least the New York Post says: "A sort of headship will be given the association by bringing the records and the direction of affairs to a centre in one apartment."

The Yale freshman nine is in hard training in the gymnasium, and is already begining to wear that mysterious, non-committal air characteristic of Yale. About twenty-five freshmen have presented themselves as candidates for the nine, among whom there is thought to be some very good material.

Most of the Harvard College buildings are separated into two or three portions by thick brick walls, which would act effectively against the spread of fire. In all the new building, and this includes every hall except Holworthy, Hollis and Stoughton, each room has a shield of plaster entirely around it on walls, ceiling and floor, so that in case of fire in any room the smoke could not penetrate to other rooms. - [Boston Journal.

President Porter of Yale testifies emphatically in favor of college athletics, stating that the students are benefitted not only physically, but he believed that they are improved morally. It is only in rare instances that athletics are pursued to the neglect of the regular studies.

A book on Dr. O. W. Holmes, containing a bibliography and a critical study of his works as well as much biographical information concerning him, has just been completed by Mr. W. S. Kennedy of Cambridge, the author of the article on "Harvard Undergraduate Life," which appeared in a recent number of the Continent.

Mr. John H. Moreland, foreman of the University Press, who has "made up" the Advocate ever since it was founded in '66, was presented Thursday with a silver water pitcher and salver by the board of editors of that paper. The presentation marks the close of Mr. Moreland's long connection with the Advocate, which is hereafter to be printed in Boston.

It is hoped that there will be representatives from other college clubs at the bicycle dinner next Tuesday. Invitations have been sent to the president and captain of each of the following clubs: Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Trinity and Williams. Mr. Dorr, '83, has been appointed chorister for the dinner, and Mr. T. J. Coolidge, '84, toastmaster. Twenty names have already been put down in the book at Bartlett's.