Blue books for Spanish 1 are to be handed in today.

Blue books in History 1, 2 and 13 are due tomorrow.

Sophomore themes will be returned this afternoon in Sever.

The contents of several gymnasium lockers is said to have lately mysteriously disappeared.

The cricket club will probably have some part of Jarvis field to practice on next spring.

It is said that there will be more entries for the winter meeting this year than last.

W. S. Phillips will attempt to break the record of 9 feet 2 inches in running high kick at the Union games.

The Brown University nine is practising daily in the gymnasium, but no trainer has yet been obtained.

Mr. George Riddle will give a course of Shaksperean readings in New York this week.

Mr. D. Baxter will enter the heavy weight sparring and Mr. Heilbron the light weight at the Union games.

Dr. Sargent will lecture at the Union gymnasium this evening on the "Uses of the Gymnasium."

The Globe is authority for the statement that Harvard students will be allowed to attend professional baseball games next season.

N. E. Myers will give an exhibition run at the Union games and it is likely that Murray, the champion walker, will give an exhibition.

Prof. Wolcott Gibbs of Harvard is the first American to be honored with an election to the German Chemical Society of Berlin.

Twenty papers are taken in the Law School reading room.

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.