The last day of the mid-year.

The new Boston social paper, The Beacon, will appear a week from Saturday.

There will be a meeting of the Harvard Art Club at 7. 15 this evening. A full attendance is desired.

Cowling, the half-back of the freshman eleven is trying for the position of anchor on the '87 tug-of-war team.

The Cambridge, England, crew has already gone into training for the Oxford-Cambridge race which is to be rowed April 5.

Boston will not have the National Amateur Regatta this year. The choice now lies between Philadelphia and Washington.

A new University has been located at Chattanooga, Tenn. It will be the centra Methodist university in the South, and $80,000 will be spent this year.

The University of Pennsylvania has decided to devote a portion of the university funds to the support of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Among the qualifications for a Presidential candidate, a New York daily mentions that "Mr. Dorsheimer is a club man ; he is handsome, portly, elegant, courtly, a graduate of Harvard College, and weighs 350 pounds."

The Amherst ball nine is in active training in the gymnasinm; "Professor" Dole is instructing them, and there is said to be little doubt that the team will be the strongest ever had at Amherst.

The firm of Brock and Leavitt, under Hilton block has been dissolved, and has been succeeded by Leavitt and Pierce. Communications for the HERALD-CRIMSON may be left in the box in this store as usual.

On the death of the wife of the late President Packer, of the Lehigh Valley R. R., Lehigh University will receive about $2,000,000. In addition at the end of 21 years it is to receive nearly $3,000,000 from the same estate.

Class-room of advanced section in Fresman Latin. Instructor-"What grows in Southern Latium ?" Student-"Wine mostly !" Instructor-"What kind of wine ?" Student-(hesitatingly) "Roman punch, I think !"

Phillips Exeter Academy will next year send more men to Princeton than ever before. The preferences expressed by the members of the graduating class there show that Harvard is the choice of a majority, then Princeton, then Yale.

Among the American contributors to the 17th volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, now in press, will be Profs. C. H. Hitchcock and J. K. Lord, of Dartmouth; Prof. W. D. Whitney of Yale, and Mr. E. L. Godkin, of the Nation.

The limited offer of Hon. E. Ashton Rollins of Philadelphia of $30,000 for a chapel for Dartmouth College, provided that $60,000 should be raised among the alumni for a library building, has not yet been met, and Mr. Rollins has extended his prosition to March 1.

Prof. Moses Coit Tyler, of Cornell, who lectured with such success before the Harvard Historical Society some two years ago is to deliver a course of lectures before the Students' Lecture Association at Ann Arbor. These lectures should be heard at Harvard.

Catalogues of the Columbia Law School have been distributed among the seniors. There are at present in the senior class of the Law-School seven and in the junior class, fourteen graduates of Harvard. Columbia College is represented by forty-nine graduates, Yale by twenty-five, and Princeton by twenty-two.