In the Columbia library the electric lights can be used at any time of day if any corner is too dark to read in without.

Qnite a party of western men started for home on Saturday in a body. They expect to make a very pleasant journey together.

The "Duchess Amelia" is the title of a novel which Mr. Barrett Wendell bas written, and which will be published by Osgood

The last number of the New Englander contains two articles on athletics, by Mr. Ripley. They are very interesting reading for college men.

The Hockey Club posted its first notice on Saturday, Skating on Glaciates. Unfortunately the snow of yesterday put an end to all present thoughts of hockey.

The class of '85, Columbia, are making an attempt to memorialize themselves by placing a stained-glass window in their college library.

Several spurt runners are practicing starting in the cage, in the gymnasium. After Christmas this exercise will be adopted as a regular feature of the work for the runners of the Mott Haven team.

At the Athletic games of the Institute of Technology held on Saturday, several Harvard men were present. The class tug-of-war contest was won by the juniors. The contestants were confined to Tech men.

One of the best and most attractive pictures in the present exhibition at the American Art Galleries in New York. is a portrait of professor James Mills Pierce by Collins, a young Cambridge artist. The genial professor is represented as seated with a closed book in one hand.

The Columbia sophomores recently broke into a room where the freshmen were having a meeting and indulged in a rush with the '88 men. To effect an entrance the sophs had to break in the door, and when in they found the freshmen all ready for them.

The number of men in '87 who have received deturs is twenty-five. They are Furber, Stanton, Brainard, Buckingham, Walker, Currier, Tuthill, Dudley, Herron, Southworth, Craig, Rich, Marvin, Luce, Von Storch, Bailey, Frost, Schofield, Haskell, Stanyan, Stedman, Bowen, Lochman, Peabody.