T. W. Cowgill, '83, is dangerously ill.

Harvard vs. Beacons today on Jarvis Field.

The marks in History 2 have been given out.

The Pierian Glee Club concert will occur Friday, May 18.

Two hundred and fifty men have joined the Tennis Association.

"N. B." at Smith's College means "Naughty Bad." - [Amherst Student.

The freshmen will have an examination in Minimum Analytics before long.

The Unions will play a match game with the Harvard Lacrosse team in Boston today.

Mr. E. S. Hawes reads Plautus' "Miles Gloriosus" in Sever 11 this evening at 7.30.

F. W. Thayer, captain of the famous '77 nine, was on Jarvis yesterday watching the nine practice.

Sixty-four tennis courts have been signed for. There are seventy-eight on the college grounds in all.

Following are the average weights of the various crews : seniors, 161 1/2; juniors, 160 3/8; sophomores, 159; freshmen, 160 3/4.

The Yale Glee Club gave a concert in New York Saturday for the benefit of the Boat Club, and cleared $550 by the performance.

The practising for the tennis tournament is going on quite vigorously, and the grounds present a very animated appearance every afternoon,

It is said that the New York University was the first institution in America planned as a great university after the pattern of the famous universities of Europe. Harvard and Yale had not developed their university aspirations when the foundations of the New York University were laid. The institution has always labored under disadvantage; its top is larger than its foundation. - [Ex.

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.