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.

The baseball convention is to be held at Springfield next Saturday, instead of at New York, as previously stated.

The Columbia College team will probably play its games on either the polo or Metropolitan grounds in New York.

Columbia is devoting all her boating energy to the freshman crew, and it is doubtful if a "varsity" appears at all. [Ex.

Washington University has received a magnificent transit instrument from George Partridge. They need an observatory as well.

The Columbia freshman crew is in hard training, being the only crew which rows daily on the machines in their gymnasium. '87 men take notice.

John Guy Vassar has presented $10000 for the benefit of the cabinets of physical and chemical apparatus in the Vassar Brothers laboratory at Vassar College.

Mr. Preble, in Latin 2, has adopted the plan of adding extra marks for recitations. Any man once answering "not prepared," will not be called upon for the remainder of the year.

The April number of Harper's Magazine is to contain an illustrated article of considerable archaeoligical interest entitled "A Visit to Sardis," from the pen of Prof. Charles Eliot Norton.

The Harvard Union will tonight debate the question "That the United States should place greater restrictions on immigration from Europe." Principal disputants, for the affirmative, Messrs. Root, '85 and W. L. Currier, '87; for the negative, Messrs. Coffin, '85, and Rich, '87.

The board of trustees of Cornell have voted that Minister James Russell Lowell, a former non-resident professor of the institution, should represent them at the 300th anniversary of the University of Edinburgh in April. Engrossed resolutions of congratulation will be forwarded.

Mr. Dorsheimer (M. A., '59) who is to write the life of Van Buren for the Statesman Series is to put his manuscript in the hands of the publisher by the first of October. He is to be allowed the use of a number of Van Buren's private papers, now in the hands of the widow of his son.