President Carter of Williams is quite ill.

The Lacrosse team will go into training next week.

The marks in Greek 4 (composition) run very high.

The Second Roberts' Hall Assembly took place last evening.

Out of two hundred and one students at Wesleyan, twenty-one are women.

Mr. G. S. Mumford has been elected permanent captain of the freshman crew.

There will be a class meeting of '86 this evening, at half-past seven o'clock, in Boylston Hall.

W. T. Washburn, who wrote "Fair Harvard," has a serial melodrama in John Swinton's Paper.

The shoot to have been held at Watertown this afternoon has been postponed until Saturday morning.

The stroke used in their practice up to the present time by the Oxford University crew averages from twenty-eight to twenty-nine to the minute. [Ex.

Wesleyan University has 201 students, 31 seniors, 46 juniors, 54 sophomores, 54 freshmen, one post-graduate, and two special students. The faculty numbers eighteen.

"Dear me," said a good old lady on Fifth street the other evening, "how this craze for china is growing. Here's a New York club that is paying $3,000 for a pitcher." [Ex.

In Switzerland the medical students have taken action against the admittance of women in their schools. The ground they take is that, if foreign women study medicine there, the Swiss women will desire to do the same, and make the profession more overcrowded than it is now.

It is said that when Sumner and Phillips were in college, each mapped out for himself the plan of life afterward followed by the other.

An election for the vacancy caused by the election of Mr. Merriam as vice-president of Memorial Hall will take place next Friday at dinner. Nominations may be left with the auditor.

Yale is calling for greater exertions on the part of undergraduates to work for the Mott Haven contest. They want to get out all the available material, but find it a difficult task.

Mr. Wendell, the instructor in English, has been making a tour during the examination period through all the large colleges, to learn their various methods of teaching English literature.

Mr. Briggs gives one of his lectures for sophomores in narrative composition today, at 11 A. M. The subject is: "Movement in Narrative," as illustrated by the writings of Scott, Thackeray and others.

The marks in Latin 1, given out yesterday, run low. No one that once responds "not prepared," will be called on again during the half-year. Those who recite will receive extra marks for so doing.

The rooms of the Co-operative Society will be closed on Saturday to enable the superintendent to make up his final report on the amount of stock on hand in readiness for the annual meeting on Monday next.

The members of Mathematic 2 will soon receive a pamphlet containing fifty problems. Forty of these are to be done, on honor, during the succeeding three weeks, and will count in the marks for the first half-year. The marks on the examination will not be announced.

At the meeting of the Lacrosse Association yesterday, a general change of officers took place, caused by the vacancy in the office of president, Mr. W. B. Noble having left college. Mr. C. J. Renter, '84, was elected president; Mr. H. M. Williams, '85, captain, and Mr. E. F. Woods, '85, secretary and treasurer.

It will be recollected that a very prominent excuse offered by Harvard for not rowing Pennsylvania was the expense of preparing a crew, or, at least, of sending one, if only to the Charles River; so it strikes us a trifle inconsistent to talk about sending a second eight. They might, however, be sent on by express. [University of Pennsylvania Magazine.