The Manhattan Athletic Club of N. Y., has decided to erect a club house to cost $450,000. It will be the finest and largest building of its kind in the world.
At the last meeting of the Photographic club, prizes for groups and portraits were awarded to Messrs. Buckley, Hubbard, Cammann and Sellers.
Yesterday's Times stated that "John Hayes, the ex-catcher of the Brooklyn nine, has been engaged by a Yale student, at $20 per weak, as an instructor in the art of self-defence." -News.
There will be examinations in N. H. 8, Dec. 21, at 10 a. m., at 2 Museum; N. H. 4, Dec. 18, 12 M.; N. H. 14, Dec. 18, 9 a. m., 1 Museum. Each examination will be one hour and ten minutes long.
The sound of pistol shots in the vicinity of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory appears to have excited some students who have recitations in the Lawrence Scientific School. They have no reason for anxiety; it is only the members of Physics C, trying to find out how fast sound travels.