The posting of the mid-year examinations is awaited with great interest.

The Amherst papers are urging the formation of alumni associations.

Archdeacon Farrar sails for Europe on Saturday.

Theses on Butler in Philosophy 4 are due on Thursday.

The lacrosse team intends to practice in the cage this winter.

The Index is now on sale at Amee's, Severs' and the Co-op.

Williams will probably build a toboggan slide.

Prof. John Williams White is wintering at Delaware, Ohio.

Candidates for the sophomore crew will begin rowing on Thursday.

Within the last year, five "colleges" have been established in Dakota. - Ex.

Dr. Kuno Francke will recuperate on his brother's plantation at Durango, Mexico.

There will be a recitation in Physics C on Friday. Blue-books must be handed in to-day.

The Princeton authorities have decided to make their college a university within five years.

Amherst has caught the craze and will very probably give to the world in a few weeks the Amherst Lit.

An Amherst freshman has just been appointed assistant superintendent of the Cincinnati House of Refuge.

W. H. Goodwin, '84, the celebrated runner, was in Cambridge on Saturday, being east on a short visit.

The students of Dartmouth have provisionally voted to invite James G. Blaine to address them at their next commencement.

All copies of the syllabus in Physics C not returned by 2 p.m. to-day will be replaced at the expense of those who have borrowed them.

Two one hour examinations will be substituted in Philosophy 1 for the mid-year examination. One will be held in December and one in March.

Student (to servant at the door). - "Miss Brown?" Servant. - "She's engaged." Student. - "I know it. I'm what she's engaged to." - Spectator.

The freshmen are now rowing three crews and four substitutes. No permanent captain has yet been elected to fill the vacancy left by Mr. Keyes.

The Oberlin students who were suspended for attending a performance of Richard III will be reinstated on promising to abstain from the theatre in the future.

Boils, poverty, the faithlessness of friends, and the marking system have come down through the ages together to try men's souls. And we have no reason to suspect that these same institutions are not in vogue as tortures for the durned, down below. - Yale Courant.

The Williams Fortnight advocates the shingle system in use here, saying: "It is time that we did away with the primitive bits of tattered paper, clinging feebly to the chapel in a mountain gale. Let us welcome the more civilized 'shingle,' natty in appearance, a stimulator to individual society work, and, what is more, a friend that can be admitted to a group of Pach or Notman."