Cornell's freshman class numbers 220.

Bowdoin essays are due November 1st.

Eighty-nine's prescribed work begins to-day.

Candidates for the Tech. eleven are at work.

The spring term bills are payable on or before Oct. 11th.

Wadsworth, '85, is engaged in business in Boston.

The English cricket team visited Harvard before leaving Boston.

To-morrow is the last day for exchange of rooms between undergraduates.

Students who have elected History 20 will meet the instructors some time this week.

The Photographic Club will meet tonight in Littles Block 26, at 7.30 o'clock.

Canon Farrar and other big guns are announced as lecturers at Harvard during this term.

A. E. Strong, '85, conducts the department of mathematics in a lately founded academy in Groton, Mass.

A descriptive pamphlet devoted to the mathematical department of the college can be obtained on application at U. 5.

The Society of Christian Brethren will hold its meeting on Thursday evening, at 6.30, in their new room in Lawrence.

The names of those who will be permitted to take N. H. 5 will be announced to-day at the recitation hour.

A meeting is called this evening at 7.30 in Holden Chapel to organize a movement to pay the debt of the boat club.

'89 will hold its meeting Thursday evening in Boylston. Election of officers and the usual routine business will be in order.

Students intending to take Mathematics XIII will meet Mr. F. N. Cole, the instructor, in University 19, to-day at 4 o'clock.

A game of base-ball has been arranged for next Wednesday afternoon on Holmes Field, between Harvard and a Cambridge nine.

Mr. Clymer will meet the juniors in Sever 11, to-morrow, at 2 o'clock. Mr. Briggs will meet the freshmen in the same place at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.

Harvard has challenged Brown to a game of base-ball to be played in Cambridge next Saturday. The base-ball management will arrange several games for this fall.

Nutter, '85, has received the appointment of private secretary for President Eliot. He will, in addition to the duties of this office, pursue the first year course in the Law School.

President Eliot will talk to the new members of the university to-morrow evening, in Sever 11, at 7.30 o'clock. His subject will be "Rational Management of Life at the University."

The game of cricket between the Manhattan Wanderers and ten Harvard men, played on last Friday, resulted in the following score: Manhattan Wanderers, 1 inning, 117; Harvard, 2 innings, 66.

The Advocate shows enterprise in offering two Literary Prizes. The first is a prize of $10 for the best story sent in before Jan. 15, 1886; the second is one of the same amount for the best essay contributed during the same period.