Charles L. Colby has given a round $1,000,000 to establish a new university in Wisconsin. It was his father, Gardner Colby, who endowed Colby College, at Waterville, Maine.

A race between four-oared crews from Brown University and the Anawan Boat Club at Mount Hope on last Saturday, was won by the Anawans. Distance, 1 3-4 miles. Time 14.40.

Mr. R. D. Sears, M. S., andMr. H. A. Taylor, '86, played a practice game of lawn tennis against Mr. Hooper and Dr. Dwight at Longwood, Saturday, preparatory to the intercollegiate tournament at Hartford on Tuesday.

Last year's ill success has caused an investigation of the present system of Athletics at Princeton. An undergraduate committee has been appointed to confer with the Faculty and consider the advisability of adopting some features of the Yale system.-[Ex.

The '87-88 base ball game at Yale on Saturday resulted in a tie. At the conclusion of the game the sophomores endeavored to "pass the freshman out"-a popular pastime at Yale-and to take the sidewalk from them but were only partially successful, though it is reported that many freshmen were obliged to wait the arrival of darkness before they could safely reach their rooms and repair damages to their costumes.