Williams has 258 students; Brown, 248.

Theme VI in English 5 is due on Monday.

The Nation is anxious for a University of New York, that will deserve the name.

The Deturs will be distributed to the sophomores who have won them on Monday.

The Scientific School has a new machine for testing the strength of building materials.

Mr. Moody is at Dartmouth now. It is still hoped that he will be able to come to Harvard this winter.

The Princetonian is having an interesting discussion on the way in which their yell should be yelled.

The freshman crews are being coached by Capt. Mumford, Mr. Storrow and Mr. Butler.

Chestnut No. 5. "The Harvard men use the cage for practising tennis, as well as base-ball and lacrosse." - Ex.

A "Ministerial Club" has been organized here composed of students who intend to enter the ministry. - Yale News.

A small number of men in '88 have formed, a Shakespeare Club; it will be devoted to social and literary purposes.

The will of John Langdon Sibley has been filed in the probate court. His widow receives the income of his entire estate. At her death the bulk of his property will be given to the Massachusetts Historical Society.

The new Lampoon board from '88 is as follows: L. Honore, J. R. Purdon, L. Anderson, F. L. H. Noble, B. W. Palmer, G. H. Lent.

Rev. W. Hay Aitkin of London will preach in Tremont Temple tomorrow, at 3 o'clock, under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A.

According to the New York Tribune, Harvard students demand "free religion and free sports, and no faculty interference in either, if you please."

The $200,000 left to the Vanderbilt University of Tenn. by the late W. H. Vanderbilt, is to be used in building a new fire proof library building, and purchasing more books.

Prof. Shaler, at his initiation into the Signet on Thursday night, read a paper on "Sympathy as Shown in Custom." He has a book in preparation on the subject.

The officers of the Delta Upsilon are: President, W. F. Osgood, '86; vice-president, W. L. Currier, '87; secretary, H. W. Bean, '87; treasurer, R. W. Black, '87; chorister, B. C. Henry, '86.

Of the 312 colleges in the United States, 250 have preparatory departments connected with them; 171 admit both sexes on equal terms; 133 admit only men; 5 admit only women.

It is a pleasure to be able to state that Frank Dole will train the foot-ball team next season, for he is one of the few men that seemed to interest themselves in the eleven, as he not only had to act the part of trainer, but captain to the team also. - Pennsylvanian.

The initial number was issued Tuesday of the Pennsylvanian, to be published weekly by the students of the University of Pennsylvania. It takes the place of the University Magazine, and presents a very creditable appearance.

The Princetonian in a very readable article on the necessity of altering some of the existing foot-ball rules closes as follows: "To perpetuate the American 'scrimmage' in its present form interference, the rule that permits a rusher to hold his man, i.e, holds with the hands, must first be prohibited under severe penalties; and the holding of the ball at all by the opposing center-rusher should be simply disallowed."