Twenty graduates of Harvard have positions on the New York Sun. (Ex.

Two juniors have launched a successful iceboat on the Charles river.

The examination in Fine Arts 3, lasted only an hour and a half.

The trouble over the junior editors of the Yale Lit has subsided.

A fencing club is to be formed at Princeton.

There is a college to every 100 miles of territory in the United States.

Efforts are being made at Amherst to organize a Polo team.

There has been very good skating on Fresh Pond where the new ice formed after the cutting.

The Bicycling World refuses to accept records made last year at Springfield.

The Yale Record is in favor of introducing a conference committee on the subject of college discipline.

The introduction of cricket as a recognized sport is being discussed at Yale.

The latest addition to the Yale gymnasium is a new style rowing machine which has been placed there on trial.

Mr. Lutz now occupies what was formerly Prof. Sophocles' room in Holworthy.

Mr. Dewey will not be the anchor of the '86 team this year, as he has decided not to pull.

The Yale baseball season will be opened about April 3, by a game with the champion Athletics of the American Association.

Gilman will in all probability anchor the junior tug-of-war team in the winter games.

The Yale Bicycle Club will have a hare and hounds run on lake Whitney this winter, if the ice is good.

At Princeton a chemical analysis is compelled to be made yearly of the water used at the eating clubs.

Dartmouth's income paid its expenses last year for the first time since 1859.

The faculty of Lafayette acted as judges in a cane rush and congratulated the victorious sophs.

'87, University of Pennsylvania, has a gun club and a bicycle club larger than the university club itself.

It is said that the largest school in the world is the Jews' Free School in Spitalfields, London. It contains 2,800 members.

The cry for more diversion at Princeton during the winter terms has led to the formation of a society similar to the Assembly at Harvard, to be known as the Princeton Assembly.

The late Dr. John R. Lee, of Hartford, Conn., made a number of bequests to Oberlin and some of the minor. Western colleges. The amounts given were small, varying from $2,000 to $5,700.

The games of the Union Amateur Athletic Club occur this evening, in the Institute Rink, Boston. A number of college men are expected to be present to back our various entries. Considering the number of men and their known records some very interesting sport is anticipated.

M. Girard has bequeathed to the French Association for the Advancement of Science a capital sum of $20,000, the interest of which is to be devoted every five years to the encouragement of researches into the antiquity of man and his relation to geological ages.

JUNIOR THEMES.

Junior themes. Advanced sections. Theme VI. was due on Jan. 22. Members of this section who have not yet handed it in will kindly leave it at 30 Gray's Hall as soon as possible. Theme VII. will be due on Tuesday, Feb. 12. Subject: The Merits and the Faults of the Present Instruction in English.