Twenty-five fellows are training in the Yale gymnasium for the freshman crew, many heavy men among the number.

Last Friday representatives from five colleges, Union, Hamilton, Rochester, Cornell and Hobart met at Utica to perfect a plan for the organizations of a New York State Inter-collegiate Baseball Association.

By the provisions of the will of the late Mrs. S. G. Stone, of Boston, $75,000 is given to Bowdoin, $50,000 to Amherst, and $35,000 to Dartmouth. The sum of $1,840,000 is divided among twenty-seven minor educational and charitable institutions.

The result of the vote for vice president of Memorial Hall was as follows: Whole number of votes cast, 414; necessary for a choice, 208; J. M. Merriam, '86, had 208; B. W. Wells, '84, had 18; E. T. Edgerly, '85, had 29; scattering, 169. Mr. Merriam was declared elected.

The Yale College Bicycle Club will hold a race meeting in June, and will enter the League of American Whelmen, in order that the records be accepted as valid. The New Haven clubs have promised to assist at the meeting. Hendee, the champion, will enter the races and try to lower the records in every distance up to ten miles.

The observatory at Columbia is on top of the library building. The great need, Professor Rees, its director, has said, was a special endowment. An endowment fund of $150,000 or $200,000 would make it the finest observatory in the country. The college had spent so much money in new building that it could not specially endow the observatory.

THE HOLMES HOUSE.Concering its destruction, a writer in the Cambridge Tribune says: It is nothing less than abominable to even meditate the destruction of the old Holmes house. It is dear to the older residents of our ancient town for many reasons; and now because it somewhat obscures the glories of the new and expensive legal nursery, it is doomed to join the shadowy procession of abolished landmarks-the old Hancock mansion in Boston, our beloved chestnut tree of fragrant memory, and many another precious relic of departed days.