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.

The directors of the Brown University Base-Ball Association have decided to engage a professional trainer for their nine. Matthews, formerly of the New York team, will probably be engaged.

The University of Edinburgh, which will hold its tercentenary celebration in April, has sent an invitation to Columbia College to have a representative present who shall be a guest of the university.

The present classic condition of Irish society is shown by the following from a Dublin paper: "Lost, a cameo brooch, representing Venus and Adonis while walking in Sandymount (near Dublin) on Sunday last."

D. L. Dowd, of Springfield, who was examined recently by Dr. Sargent and pronounced by him the best developed man he had ever met, showed an average development of 957, while the average of the fifty strongest men in the college was only 894.

Hamline University, Minnesota, has just dedicated a new University Hall and a Chemical and Physical Laboratory. Bishop C. D. Foss delivered the dedicatory address. During the exercises $30,000 was subscribed, which fully covers the debt incurred in the construction of the buildings.

The Cercle Francais has begun the second term of its existence in a most flourishing condition. It has cabled to Paris for a French copy of "Sarah Barnum," and until its arrival will continue to read "File No. 113," there being "translations of that work in a cheap edition." [Argo.