The recess has been profitably employed by the crews, who have spent the time in assiduous practice at the oar. The nine was prevented by bad weather from playing the two games that had been arranged and so has not yet had any chance to test its strength with rival teams. The days that gave pleasant weather were well employed by practice on the field. It is almost a month, However, before the first league game with Brown, so that there is abundant time for improvement in play, and, if the already backward season does not still further retard the progress of the nine, we may hope to see gratifying results by that time. The tennis and bicycle seasons have fairly opened. The boat-house, Holmes and Jarvis will now be frequented daily by spectators and athletes. Jarvis is rapidly being put in condition for the ball season and for the spring meetings. The student already casts a jealous eye upon Holmes, in anticipation of the coming inroads of the workmen who are to build the new Physical Laboratory. The senior reminds himself with a melancholy satisfaction that the last term of his college course has begun. The joy of the under-classmen, at the presence of spring, is only tempered by dread of the approaching annuals.