Professor C. E. Norton has retired from the athletic committee of the faculty. His place has been taken by Professor W. E. Byerly, '71, of the mathematical department.

Semi-annual examination will take place at Yale in December, and all students not attaining a passing mark will be dropped immediately.

Mr. James G. Lathrop, whose name was mentioned in that connection a few days ago, has received an appointment to take charge of the college athletics.

Dr. Phillips Brooks will be the select preacher in the University of Cambridge next June. This is the second time that this honor has been conferred on an American clergyman.

The following men compose the Yale Freshman foot ball team : Rushers : Cross, Bushnell, Stevenson, Lux, J. Allen, Flagg and Gill ; quarterback, Beecher ; halfbacks, Goodwin and Wallace ; back, Rubsamen.

The London Saturday Review has an article on amateur athletics in America. Special mention is made of the successful records made by three men of the H. A. A., Messrs. Goodwin, Atkinson and Baker.

In the tennis tournament Presbrey and Sawin defeated Lord and Bohlen, 6-3, 5-6, 6-4. The finals will be played by the former against the winners of Rhinelander and Tooker vs. Hopkins and Snow.

Many conjectures as to the probable route of the torchlight parade are made. The first stories, that it would be 10 or 12 miles long, are now discredited, as Colonel Wellington is known to favor short marches for inexperienced men.

The procession will form somewhere near the Public Garden, either on Arlington street or Commonwealth avenue. The line of march will take in part of the Back Bay and South end and be reviewed at the Park street headquarters of the Republican committee.

The students of the Worcester Technology took a horse up two flights of stairs and placed him in one of the pews in chapel. It took the president, professors and a large body of assistants to get the beast down on the following evening, while the students stood afar off and laughed.