There was a cut in yesterday's recitation in Greek 1.

Prospects are not bright for a very interesting meeting today.

There has been altogether too much fire-cracker enthusiasm in the yard this week.

Mr. Macvane has a letter in the current Nation on "The Prospect of a Premium on Gold."

The custom of placing the prize cups for the winter meetings in Bartlett's window seems to have been abandoned.

The Cornell freshmen have at last succeeded in holding their supper without being molested by the upper class men.

Messrs. Crocker and LeMoyne our delegates to the baseball conference, advocated the adoption of the new "six ball" rule.

This week's New York Critic contains a long article on secret societies in college, and devotes most of the essay to Yale.

The students of Notre Dame University recently gave a representation of the "OEdipus Tyrannus," rendering the lines in English.

All the crews were upon the river yesterday afternoon. The sophomore, junior, and senior crews were afloat for the first time this year.

The Institute of Technology expects to put an excellent nine in the field this spring. This will be an advantage to us for practice games.

Measures have been taken at Cornell for putting the new gymnasium in complete efficiency, and a gymnasium council has been established.

The obituary notice of Wendell Phillips, '31, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, '41, has been reprinted from the "Nation" in pamphlet form, by Lee and Shepard.

Williams College will send one or two representatives to the inter-collegiate sports this spring, men being in training for them now.

Mr. Joseph Thacher Clarke, late director of the works at Assos, will deliver four lectures in a series on archaeological subjects, before the students of Johns Hopkins.

It is said that the chapel choir at Williams receives a regular salary. At Yale it might be more appropriate to reverse the matter, and give the salary to the audience. [News.

Prof. Francis A. Walker's series of lectures which were delivered before the Harvard Finance Club last May, have been published in book-form under the title "Land and Its Rent," by Little, Brown and Co.

Additional entries have been received for the first athletic meeting as follows: Middleweight wrestling, R, J. Oglesby, '87; featherweight wrestling, F. E. Hughes, '87; middleweight sparring, G. Woodbury, '86, R. D. Smith, '86.

A colored student applied for and gained admission to the College of Pharmacy in Washington. A large part of the students have entered a protest against the action of the directors in receiving him, and have left till their protest is honored.

The universities of Vienna offer better inducements for the study of medicine than those of any other place in Europe. Those of Berlin rank second, yet there are many smaller ones whose degrees rank higher than either those of Vienna or Berlin.

The next question for debate in the Union is: Resolved, That the United States should cooperate with other nations in ferreting out and punishing plotters against established governments. The debate will be held March 27, and Messrs. Wait, Hoar and Eaton, of the law school will take part as regular disputants.

It has been decided to row the next class race of the University of Pennsylvania over the national course on the Schuylkill river, on Saturday, May 3. The race will be rowed in four-oared gigs, and will be contested by crew of the classes of '84, '85, '86 and '87, and the medical school.