The Princeton Athletic Association has a surplus of just $4.42.

Princeton has at last a Roller Skating Rink.

The first Harvard Assembly comes a week from to day.

The Princetonian heads its item column in big letters as follows; 9 to 6.

Umpire Hall did some excellent playing for Yale on Thanksgiving day. Princetonian.

Now that the foot ball season is over, the Yale crew has begun to row regularly on the water.

The attention of the country seems to be equally divided between the President's message and Harvard's action in regard to foot ball.-Yale News

Buley '86, who was injured in the gymnasium last week, is improving rapidly, although he is still confined to his room.

The Boat Club of the University of Pennsylvania has engaged Ellis Ward as trainer, and its crew will go into training next week.

The great game of Foot Ball vs. Faculty, introduced last year with so much success, is again being played at Harvard.-(Ex.

There will be an open meeting of the Shakespeare Club at Sever 11. this evening. The speakers will be Messrs- Bailey, Bowen, Goodale, Greenman, Halbert, Hansen, Noble, and Winter.

The members of the University who may wish to join the Harvard Chess Club are requested to send their names to J. Ward Thoron, 9 Linden Street. Names thus presented will be referred to the Executive Committee.

The Yale Record, with the usual confidence, breaks forth with an editorial as follows: "We congratulate the eleven upon once more securing the championship, and only regret that a complication of technicalities should delay an official announcement of the fact."

All members of Mr. Wendell's sections, and all sophonores, who failed to pass the anticipatory examination in Rhetoric and are unable to attend lectures, will kindly leave at 18 Gray's Hall, on or before Tuesday, Dec 16, a written analysis of the first chapter of the second book of Hill's Rhetoric, (pp. 63-103.)

The Theta Delta Chi foot ball team of this college played a game with a team from the same society in Tufts college yesterday afternoon, at College Hill. The Harvard team was victorious, by a score of twenty-eight points, (four goals, and one touchdown,) to nothing. Mr. Brooks of Boston University was referee.

The Princetonian says: "The Professors of English at Harvard now excuse editors of the college papers from essay writing This cannot fail to have a good effect on Harvard journalism. The editors will have more time for their journalistic work, and competition for editorial boards will be stronger. This ought to be tried in Princeton." We should like to inform the Princetonian, and also a hundred or so other college papers in which this delusive item has appeared, that the Harvard editor has as hard a grind in his English work as anyone else, and is not exempt at all from essay writing.