The Princetonian speaks the "1617 students at Harvard."

C. B. Gamble has been elected captain of the Princeton lacrosse team.

Junior promptly and with an appropriate gesture, "Neither do I"-[Ex.

T. H. Cabot '86 has taken Borland's place as coach of the freshman crew.

Trinity, though small in members, has a larger endowment fund than Yale.

Prof. Robert E. Thompson lectures to the Yale students to night on "Protection."

O. R. Hansen assisted E. Sutton in coaching the senior crew yesterday afternoon.

A large number of men watched the 'Varsity crew while rowing upon the hydraulics yesterday.

The bust of Longfellow has arrived, and occupies a position in the northeast end of Memorial hall.

Tumbling is fast getting to be a favorite amusement with a number of students in the gymnasium.

Storrow and Yocum have changed places on the 'Varsity, the former going to bow and the latter to No. 7.

Arrangements are being made for a Y. M. C. A. conference of Pennsylvania colleges, to be held at Lafayette, early in February.

A banjo and guitar club has been started at Princeton, and if successful they will accompany the Glee Club on several occasions.

The 'Varsity crew yesterday did not take their accustomed run up North Avenue, but circled many times around the track instead.

The Yale polo club is fast developing an excellent team. Saturday they almost defeated the Lincolns, one of the best teams in Connecticut.

Henry Adams, the author of Democracy, is writing a large work in several volumes upon the "History of Political Parties in the United States."

At the University of Pennsylvania three new departments have recently been opened-one of biology, one of physical culture, and one of veterinary surgery.

The class of '75 of the college of the City of New York has presented the college with 375 electrotypes of ancient coins, covering a period from 700 B. C. to 200 A. D.

A new chapel and new observatory are being erected at the University of Virginia. The university has just received a bequest of $470,000 from Mr. Austin of Massachusetts.

Princeton has started a university laundry, thereby throwing out of employment many resident washwomen. The action was rendered necessary by the prevalence of diphtheria in the place.

Charming maiden: "You threw me a kiss, yesterday, didn't you?"

Junior, apologetically: "Yes-I did."

Maiden, confidently: "I don't exactly like extemporaneous or off-hand kisses."

One of the Yale papers says, with biting sarcasm, that "the Yale News ought to begin to charge storage on some of its items." It is lucky that no outside paper gave utterance to this severe and accurate criticism.

Notwithstanding the pressure of examination time, the opening night of the big minstrel show in the Boston Theatre Monday evening proved a sufficient counter-attraction to draw a fair sized delegation of college men from the pressing attractions of Cambridge at present.