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.

Thales said, "All things are water." "Ah!" said the thoughtful senior, "then Thales must have in Cambridge."

Our second article on the crews of Harvard deals with the two most important,- the university and freshman crews.

Col. Bancroft, '78, has been made superintendent of the Cambridge horse railroad in place of Richard Hapgood, resigned.

The attack upon the Divinity School printed in the Transcript last week, is said to have been written by Rev. Edward C. Towne.

By a new arrangement the University Calendar will in future be printed on Saturdays, and will appear in the CRIMSON on Mondays.

O that the faculty showed the same consideration for our physical welfare that they do for our spiritual! But, alas, this costs money.

There will be no lecture in Phil. 4 W tomorrow, but Prof. Palmer will be in the lecture room, ready to answer questions in reference to the examination.

Some of the gilded youth of the Law School have formed a new law club, the Beck-Holworthy. From the name one would suppose that the club will take up cases of status principally.

At two successive meetings the class of '87 of the Institute of Technology, has decided by very close votes, not to allow wine on the table at its first dinner, which takes place on the 22nd prox.

The swimming in the yard on Saturday was excellent. The care with which the paths are cleaned of snow evidently shows that the authorities, having our best interests at heart, think that the number of baths which we may take in the gymnasium or elsewhere of our own accord are not sufficient-but that ice cold ones are also necessary for our good health.