A set of photographic views of buildings, laboratories, etc., of Amherst college is being prepared for exhibition at the New Orleans Exposition.

The H. S. A. P., or more familiarly the Photo. Club, have now a membership of 24, an increase of 7 since the club was started a week ago.

The first division in required French will be examined to-morrow (Friday), in Sever 35, at 9 A. M., the second division in Sever 19, at 10 A. M.

There is talk of reviving boating at Trinity. The college owns a convenient boat house and a number of shells, which for some time have been unused.

Several students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are contemplating a trip to the New Orleans Exposition during the January vacation.

The latest number of Jingo, the comic paper, has a highly edifying (?) double page colored cut of Scientific Foot Ball as exemplified by the Yale-Princeton game.

R. F. Fiske, who rowed bow in the Harvard-Columbia freshman race, last spring, has been elected captain of the sophomore crew, in place of G. S. Mumford, resigned.

The Princeton papers, the Princetonian and Nassau Literary Magazine, are crying for some plan of student self-government like that in vogue at Amherst and Bowdoin.

In the latest number of "Life" is an article, evidently by a Harvard man, on "Entrance Examinations to Colleges." The illustrations are by F. G. Atweod, '78, the old "Lampoon" editor and artist.

Copies of the prayer petition have been sent to the students who live outside the college dormitories; these copies are printed on postal cards, which the students are asked to sign and return, whether they happen to live outside prayer limits or not.

The meeting of the Harvard Union this evening, will be devoted to the discussion of the following proposition : "Resolved, that the enfranchisement of the negro, as accomplished by the 15th amendment, was a mistake." For the affirmative : Messts. J. W. Merriam, '86, J. M. Garrison, '88; for the negative, Messrs. B. G. Davis, '85, P. S. Stevisbergh. '87.