Eight men are trying for the position of pitcher on the Yale nine.

It is said that there are thirty candidates for the nine at Exeter.

Only one crew ventured out upon North avenue yesterday afternoon.

It is said that Bremer and Goodwin will not play on the Yale nine this year,

Many seniors and juniors failed to call for their forensics in Sever Hall, yesterday afternoon.

More new coat hooks have been put up in the basement and fencing room of the gymnasium.

The Harvard Chess Club has sent a challenge to the Yale Chess Club. A reply has not yet been received.

There is some talk of offering President Arthur the presidency of Union College, of which he is a graduate.

A new bulletin board with glass cover has been placed in the entry of the gymnasium. It is for official notices.

Kendall F. Crocker, '88. has been appointed captain of the freshman tug-of-war team by Capt. Woodman of the crew.

Professor Thompson, who delivered the lectures here on Protection, will lecture before the Yale students on the same subject.

A plan is on foot for a confederation of the colleges of Ontario, Canada, Seven colleges are embraced in the scheme.

Communications to the CRIMSON are collected from the Harvard Co-operative box at 9.25 A. M., and at 12.25, 2.55, 5.55 P. M.

Baxter, '83, the noted sparer, broke his hand on Tuesday for the third time in a bout with one of the leading Boston professionals.

Harvard is already training for the Mott Haven games; so are we. Every morning about 40 men make a hundred yards dash up the Chapel aisles.-[Ex.

Brown University has been admitted to the Intercollegiate Rowing Association, of which Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton are members.

The long 100-yard stretch of the track on Holmes field has been overflowed and frozen. The Cambridge mucker utilizes the narrow stretch of ice as a skating rink.

It is said that a prominent member of the Pierian was seen on Boston common, late last Saturday night trying to slide down the "long coast," perched upon the top of his violin box.

The Rev. Charles F. Thwing, of Cambridge, Mass., has been invited to become the successor of the Rev. Dr. Magoun as President of Iowa College, at Grinnell, Iowa.

Professor Charles Eliot Norton will act as advisory editor of the American Journal of Archaeology Published in Baltimore. Instructor Marsh will also render editorial assistance.

Columbia has accepted the challenge of the Yale Chess Club, and the games have already been begun. Two games are being played, each side having the first move in one.

A rumor that there would be no morning prayers during the semis has been going the rounds. It must have come from a man with a very imaginative mind, fond of building castles in the air.

Shortly after dinner, last evening, a rumor spread among the students that Beck Hall was on fire. In response to the bells, the engines promptly appeared, accompanied by about 300 students and townsmen, only to find that a chimney was on fire in a house opposite Beck. DLEDLE