The Rev. E. E. Hale preached last night in Appleton Chapel.

Mr. Ferris has already begun his sparring lessons at the gymnasium.

A foot ball game will be played with Trinity tomorrow at 3.30 on Jarvis Field.

Yale defeated Dartmouth at Hanover, N. H., yesterday at football. Score 113 to 0.

The Christmas vacation at Yale will be for three weeks from December 18 to January 8.

The second number of the Lampoon, just out, is fully up to the first in wit and illustration.

There will be an early dinner at 5 o'clock today at Memorial for members of the drum corps.

Colonel Austin C. Wellington of the first regiment will be chief marshal of the big procession on Thursday.

It is rumored that all the student organizations will be placed in a special division of the torchlight procession.

The Technology regiment in the torchlight procession on Thursday will have the services of the Boston Cadet Band.

There will be a one hour examination in Philosophy 1 on November 8. No mark will be given and the exercise is voluntary.

Princeton defeated the University of Pennsylvania at football on Saturday at Philadelphia, by a score of 31 to 0.

On Cambridge Common, Saturday, the Cambridge high school eleven beat Dummer Academy foot ball team by 12 to 4.

Full particulars for the parade, Thursday evening, received too late for publication, will appear in tomorrow's issue.

Members of '88 and '87 who have not been measured for uniforms should leave measures immediately at J. W. Brine's. Suits will be ready Tuesday.

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.