A considerable number of men gather each day on Jarvis to witness the running, and a good deal of interest is manifested. Prospects for a successful spring meeting are excellent.

An illustrated parody on "Patience" has recently appeared in the reading room. The illustrations are very good and are from the pen of H. W. McVicar, whose drawings have become familiar to us through Life.

The first number of the University Cynic, published by students of the University of Vermont, has appeared. The paper is by no means so forbidding as its name, which, we are informed, is chosen solely on classic principles.

"Such a system as the new one proposed for admission requirements," says an exchange, "would let a man graduate at Harvard without ever parsing mensa or looking at a Greek alphabet; a consummation that President Eliot is known to have long devoutly wished."

At the recent "Pan-Hellenic" council held at Philadelphia, the following fraternities were represented : Alpha Tau Omega, Beta Theta Pi, Chi Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Psi Upsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Zeta Psi.