There are at present twelve candidates for the university crew.

The course in Eng 7 under Prof. Child has taken up the poet Gray.

The college has been startled by the rumor that the Index will probably appear this year.

The candidates for the nine will begin regular work in the gymnasium on Monday.

Hurd, '88, the ball player, has left college and gone to Yale, by the advice of his father. Longfellow, '86, has left college.

Professor Paine has moved into his new house on Howthorne street, which was built in accordance with his own plans.

Prof. Thompson's lectures on Protection are to be followed by four lectures on Free Trade by Mr. Edwin L. Godkin.

Captain Phillips of the nine has returned to college, having entirely recovered from the injury which he received last November.

The senior crew began rowing yesterday. The number of men trying for places is at present ten. Several other old oarsmen will begin training later on.

The number of men trying for the different crews is as large if not larger than ever before. The gymnasium has taken on its regular mid-winter appearance of bustling activity.

The Track Committee is at length permanently organized and officers have been elected. It is the business of the committee to collect funds to build a fence and grand stand for Holmes field and to keep the field in order. Each of the athletic organizations is represented on the committee.

The following changes have been made in the midyear examinations: Latin c., Jan. 19; Hist. 7, Jan. 22; Math. E, Jan. 24; N. H. 14, Jan. 30; Phys. B, Feb. 3; Pol. Econ. 3, no midyear.

The Manhattan Chess Club of New York have kindly offered the H. U. Chess Club the use of their rooms for a tournament with Yale during the Easter recess, if one can be arranged for that time.

Still another new law club has been formed. This makes two during the present year, one of them being called the "Austin Club," after the gentleman who gave the new hall, and the other still remaining without a name.