Childs, Yale '83, is to cover first base for the Hartfords next season.

The Princetons and the Amhersts are each to play two games with the Athletics of Philadelphia.

The base ball and foot ball bulletin boards will not be allowed to remain on the college grounds this year.

We shall print, in tomorrow's issue, the revised list of examinations, together with the rooms assigned to each.

It is said that the new regulations framed by the athletic committee for the guidance of the nine, will soon be issued.

The University of Pennsylvania is endeavoring to raise $50,000 for a gymnasium. $10,000 has already been secured.

Vassar College has recently received a sum of money for a fund to provide prizes for the best essays on Shakspere or the Elizabethan period.

A pleasant little rivalry in getting the end seats at chapel has been noticed among certain of the college worthies. Even great men are human.

Harry Wright predicts that 75 per cent. of the players will next season adopt the flat bat, which is allowable under the present rules.

The large mineral cabinet in Boylston Hall will be warmed this week, so that those who wish can work there in preparation for the examinations.

At the last recitation the members of Political Economy 1 were regaled with a clear and lengthy lecture on the old, old subject, cause of so much controversy and confusion to the average student, "A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor."

In spite, says the Springfield Republican, of the general wet blanketing of boating there, the Harvard class crews are hard at work training for the races in April.

'87 added to a man's name does not necessarily imply that he is not a freshman. The conduct of several sophomores in a certain course in German gives evidence of this.

It is somewhat curious coincidence that the captains of the Harvard, Yale and Princeton base ball nines, (Phillips, Terry and Edwards) will all play second base the next ball season.

The junior class of Yale recently held an election of editors for the Yale Lit. The following men were elected: C. W. Pierson, E. Woolen, C. M. Lewis, A. L. Shipman, E. J. Phelps.

The Acta Columbiana gives utterance to the following bitter complaint: "The Freshmen are very fresh; they are constantly cheering, and indulge in wild discordant yells on the slightest provocation."

Saturday afternoon the Technology Battalion gave an exhibition drill and party in the Gymnasium on Huntington avenue. Harvard, especially Harvard '88, was well represented in the audience.

The instructor in Mathematics 2, at the last recitation, gave out a paper of problems which are to be performed and handed in within a month after the Semis. It is the same paper which was used in the course last year.

A piece of sponge cake made by a Vassar girl has been presented to President elect Cleveland. It is said that Mr. Cleveland prizes it highly, and will use it as a paper weight when he goes to the White House.-Ex.

A new monthly paper has been started in New York, named "The Collegian." It is to be devoted to the interests of the colleges throughout the country, and will be managed by a board of fifteen, elected from the prominent colleges.

President Eliot is quoted as saying, at a recent teachers' meeting, that it would be much better in the country for two or three towns to maintain one high school adequately equipped, rather than for each one to maintain a weak and poorly equipped high school. The only thing that stands in the way of such a union is local jealousy, and the sooner that is cast aside the better.