The "Miners" at Columbia had a mid-winter cane rush. '87 was victorious.

Syracuse University is to receive an endowment of $40,000 for a new professorship.

Mr. John A. Hill is temporarily conducting the courses of the late Prof. Eustis.

A handsome cup for rifle shooting has been presented to the Shooting Club.

Prof. Alexander Agassiz has gone to the Sandwich Islands on account of poor health.

The Index omitted from its list of Law-school courts the Ames-Gray Supreme court.

The recitation in Greek 5, this forenoon, will be given up to a voluntary hour examination.

Students are again reminded that blue books, if not already handed in, are due in all courses.

The number of members of the Co-operative Society is now 791, larger than at any one time before.

We shall publish, latter in the week, a description of the Yale crew taken from a recent article in the News.

President Eliot will read a paper before the Nineteenth Century Club next Tuesday on the "Study of Greek."

At Oberlin they revel in an antiquated Biole weighing 25 pounds. It was printed in Germany about the year 1720.

Odell, the Yale pitcher, is suffering from a lame arm, and fears are entertained that he will be unable to pitch again.

The Yale News says that the prospect is that there will be a large number of unusually good pitchers for the nine this year.

Four out of the eight scholarships recently awarded to freshmen, were taken by radiates of the Boston Latin School.