Amherst hopes to excel Harvard in the excellence of her gymnasium.

"Mortar-boards" are worn at the University of Michigan.

The Cambridge, England, freshman class numbers 767 men.

The Orient is trying to awaken the rowing interest at Bowdoin.

Tomorrow is the last day for handing in the fourth junior theme.

Nearly every freshman at Columbia has joined one of the debating societies.

There will be no recitation in Mathematics 2 next Tuesday, as Professor Byerly will not be in Cambridge.

It is said that the Harvard nine will be strong in every position except behind the bat. [Ex.

Colby University of Waterville, Me., will have a professional coach this year for their ball nine.

The father of Prof. Willard Fiske, late of Cornell University, died in Ithaca on Sunday, at the age of eighty-one.

One hour examination in Freshman Trigonometry today at 2 P. M. Sections 1-2 in Mass. 3; 3-4 in Mass. 1; 5-6 in U. E. R.; 7-8 in Sever 37.

Professor Faxon will meet the section in N. II. 5, Biology, on Monday, at 2 P. M. The regular laboratory work will begin Wednesday, at 9 A. M.

Freshman minimum sections in Mathematics will take for Monday's lesson the first four pages of Wheeler's "Logarithms," working out the examples.

Five attorney generals of the United States have been graduates of Harvard; Theophilus Parsons, Levi Lincoln, Caleb Cushing, E. R. Hoar, Chas. Devens.

A special meeting of the faculty has been called for next Tuesday, to take action finally on the subject of professionalism. Their decision will be made public Wednesday.