The Princeton cricketers have begun out-of-door practice.

Mr. D. C. Clark, '86, has been elected treasurer of the University nine.

The petition as finally handed in to the faculty contained 668 names.

Mr. E. L. Thayer, '85, contributes an article to the current number of Life.

German is now given among the electives for the sophomore year at Brown.

At the Princeton winter games, Mr. J. C. Adams, '86, put the shot 35 feet 2 inches.

Matthew Arnold delivered his last lecture in America on the first of March.

The winter meeting of the Yale Athletic Association is to be held this afternoon.

Dr. Jacob Cooper, of Rutgers, has declined a chair in the University of Michigan.

A. P. Lothrop, L. S., and J. V. Cowling, '87, are at present rowing with the University crew.

Dartmouth is considering the advisability of sending a team to Mott Haven this year.

The geology class at Cornell has a course in field work like those conducted by Prof. Shaler.

The university of Lewisburg has received a gift of $100,000 from William Bucknell, of Philadelphia.

The freshman nine has a very promising candidate in Mr. Bissell, pitcher of the Princeton '85 nine.

Sir Arthur Wellesley Peel, the new speaker of the English House, is a graduate of Eton and Oxford.