Prof. Eustis, who was making a trip to the south on account of his health, has been brought back from Florida in a very precarious state.

Quite a number of Harvard's most noted professors were present at Prof. Thompson's lecture, President Eliot being among the number.

Owing to the recent illness of Capt. Phillips, the active management of the nine will be for the present in the hands of Mr. Winslow, '85.

An unbearable stench was caused yesterday in some of the rooms in Holyoke, by a gentleman who was cleansing the skeleton of a horse by some chemical process.

Though no regular matches will be shot at Watertown until after the semis, it is probable that a practice match may be shot, sometime during the coming week.

There was an optional examination in Greek 2, yesterday. The mark on the passage read, a chapter from the sixth book of Thucydides, may be substituted for a portion of the midyear paper.

The following gentlemen have been elected offices of the O. K for the second senior term: President. F. I. Carpenter; secretary, S. S. Bartlett; Treasurer, W. N. Roundy; librarian, E. L. Thayer.

For the first time in a number of years Trinity will this spring send several men to Mott Haven. She has one short distance runner who, it is claimed is nearly, if not quite, the equal of Brooks and Baker.

In the Massachusetts legislature which has just assembled, the president of the lower house, Mr. J. Q. A. Bracket of Boston, is a Harvard graduate, and the president of the senate, Mr. A. E. Pillsbury, also studied at Harvard.

The trial of the Fort Popham shooting case, by which Frank Smith, an '84 man, was shot and killed over two years ago, still drags on in the courts. The judge has reserved his decision and the court has adjourned until Jan. 17.