There will be an hour examination in Latin D to-day at 2 p.m.

The Harvard Union has a rival in a debating club recently formed at the Annex.

A chapter of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity is being established in Brown University.

The expenses of circulating the prayer petition will be borne by the committee.

The '89 Glee Club holds frequent rehearsals. We shall publish a full list of its members soon.

The freshman class of Oxford, England, numbers 610 and that of Cambridge 865.

The University of Pennsylvania has a Professor of Comparative Philology, who has studied twenty-five languages.

Matthew Arnold has decided to accept the nomination for the vacant professorship of poetry at Oxford.

Mr. Blaine has written that owing to a previous engagement, he will be unable to deliver the oration at the next Dartmouth commencement.

A fire in the lumber pile behind the Physical Laboratory yesterday, caused some excitement among the men who were at work there.

C. H. Hitchcock, professor of Geology at Dartmouth, and fifteen students, will spend the winter vacation in a geological trip through the Southern States.

Chestnut No. 4. "It is said that Latin will be put out of the course at Harvard after 1887, so that a man can then complete his course without knowing anything of Latin or Greek." Ex.

The junior polo club of Boston University is to contest in a series of games at the Olympian, with the English high and the Boston Latin schools. The prize will be a polo ball and a silver plated polo stick.

At a meeting of the Yale navy last night, the constitution was changed so that the undergraduates have a controlling voice in the management of the crew, instead of the alumni, as heretofore.

Getchell, Yale, '87, discovered last summer a remarkable, and what he believed to be a new species of alga. He accordingly sent it to Prof. Farlow, who unhesitatingly pronounced it a new species, and a very important discovery.

The question for discussion at the Harvard Union this evening is, "Resolved, That Russian Nihilism is Justifiable." The principal disputants are, affirmative, A. B. Houghton, '86, and E. J. Rich, '87; negative, W. C. Boyden, '86, and J. M. Merriam, '86.

In the dynamic course at Sheff., the choice between two optionals is given to the seniors, three hours a week either in electricity or hydraulic motors. This is the first time any optionals have been offered in Sheff., and this departure shows advancement in all branches of the college toward a more liberal course of studies.

A great deal is being said by the papers regarding the succession to the Presidency of Yale. The whole matter may be stated in a small sized nutshell. As long as Yale is governed in the religious spirit of its foundation, the progressive element of the Alumni will have no voice in the management. It is for the Corporation to decide this point; the Alumni can do nothing until such action is taken as will give them a voice in the deliberations of the Board. - Acta Columbiana.

Yale has formed a club composed of St. Paul's graduates. Both Yale and Princeton are eagerly seeking for influence in the preparatory schools in order to turn good athletes into their ranks.