The new gymnasium at Amberst is nearly finished.

The attendance of a dog at chapel yesterday was noticeable.

Amherst proposes to hold a whist tournament.

The University of Texas opens this month. It has an endowment of $5,250,000.

Souther, the Yale catcher, says the nine will be as good as that of last season.

The proposed visit of an English team of amateur cricketers to America next season has been abandoned.

Nearly eighty new members have been admitted to the Boston Bicycle Club in the past two months.

No lecture today in History 9. Prof. Young will answer questions in U. 4., at 10 o'clock.

Dr. Potter, late president of Union College, has been elected president of Hobart College.

Prof. Laughlin will answer questions on Political Economy 1, in Harvard 6, at 2 today.

Henry S. Daniels, a student of the Institute of Technology, was drowned in the recent steamship disaster.

Cornell is said to be the only American University which has a chair of United States History.

The exhibition of the Union Club gymnasium in Boston on the 30 inst. will be a very interesting one.

The Sunday Herald contained an article on the University of Pennsylvania affair which is a good illustration of the feeling here in regard to it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes is preparing a life of Emerson for publication.