There was another cut in German III yesterday.

There was an examination in Greek 5, yesterday.

The average weight of the Tech. rush line is 177 lbs,, and of the whole team, 171 lbs.

The "practical investigation of a charity" is due in Philosophy XI today.

In the absence of Mr. Mahany, Mr. Platt, '88, will serve as secretary protem at the Union.

Dartmouth has withdrawn from the northern inter-collegiate league on account of faculty interference.

Bowdoin and Cornell are still quarrelling about their boat race at Quinsigamond last summer.

There was the novel sight of a cut in Chapel yesterday, caused by Dr. Brooks' inability to appear.

Mr. Wilder D. Bancroft, '88, has been elected a regular editor of the CRIMSON, and Mr. John M. Merriam, '86, President pro tem.

Candidates for the Yale nine begin practice this week. The captain for 1885-6 is Stewart who covered first base last year.

The last number of the Exonian contains some very peppery remarks about the freshman game in particular and Harvard in general, which seem to have been caused by over excitement.

The last Yale News contains a most interesting account of the college since 1871. It is a pity that it is too long for publication in our columns.

Bob Cook's condition is said to be much better, and his physician says that the prospects of his final recovery are very favorable. - Yale News.

The last number of the Police Gazette contains a cut of the now famous "Winchester-Winged Wonder" and his companions on their walk to Worcester.

Evolution: Last year Lampy represented the conference committee as a small boy armed with a pair of bellows; now it is personified as a lusty knight in full armor.

The young women of Smith College are to have an astronomical observatory with a telescope whose object-glass will be larger than any object-glass now to be found among the New England colleges.

The newly elected officers of the Yale Athletic Association are Havens, '87, president; Kellogg, '87 S., vice-president; and J. Allen, '88, secretary and treasurer. The executive committee are G. B. Richards, '88 S., and McElroy, '88. The association is $100 in debt.

The funeral services of J. A. Palmer, the Yale freshman, who died suddenly last week, were very impressive and touching. Mr. Palmer is spoken of in the highest manner by all his friends, and his death is a severe loss to his class.

The Yale Banner is out. As a whole it is up to if not better than last year's. There are fewer pages than last year, but nothing of importance is omitted. The Lit board publishes it this year instead of selling the right to produce it, and they may well be satisfied with the result.

The match game of foot-ball for the championship of Memorial Hall was played yesterday afternoon on Jarvis, at 2 p. m. The contesting elevens were the "Who-Does" and the "John Stuart Mills." The game resulted in a victory for the "John Stuart Mills. The victorious eleven was made up of rushers, Rogers, Woods, White, Hood, Cushing, Poppleton, Rich; quarter-back, Thayer; half-backs, A. C. Smith, G. W. Foster; back, Hamilton.

Columbia has decided that the studies of the senior year shall be entirely elective. This plan takes effect this year.