The new track of the University of Pennsylvania, with all the necessary buildings, etc., has been completed. It is an oval quarter-mile cinder path, eighteen feet wide on the straight and fifteen on the remainder.

The greatest interest is taken by the Tech. students in the result of the contest of class tug-of-war teams in the meeting next Saturday. The teams are said to be very strong, and much sport is expected.

Our genial Free Trade Prof. thus expresses it: "Foot ball is a barbarous game, and fit only for he goals. These animals have tolerably well protected heads with few brains inside, and may be able to enjoy a bunting match."-[Williams Athenxum.

Harvard is not alone is the matter of hockey. In Canada, hockey clubs are common, and the McGill College club is a very fine one, having won almost every game played in 1883 and getting the champion's cup. In Canada, the game is usually played in covered rinks, as the ice on the rivers and ponds is covered with snow all winter.

The next mathematical seminar will be held on Thursday, December 19. Mr. A. G. Webster. '85, will give a third lecture on the "Dynamics of Billiards." The subjects for discussion will be: I. The curvature of the cogs of wheels. II. Two circles are tangent to two given lines at two given points and also two tangent to each other. Find the focus of the points of contact of the circles.

A discussion of the Greek question which should be memorable will take place in New York next month. President Eliot will address the Nineteenth Century Club on the important step lately taken by Harvard College in making the study of the classics elective to students in all classes. The debate following the exposition of President Eliot's views will be participated in by President Porter of Yale, and President McCosh of Princeton.