The New York nine defeated the St. Louis at New Orleans, on Sunday, by a score of 6 to 2. This is the first game of the series that the New Yorks have won. One game of the series was played by electric light.

On Saturday last, the Inter-collegiate Foot-Ball Association met in New York. Mr. Corwin of Yale was elected secretary and treasurer for the coming year. The championship of 1885 was then formally awarded to Princeton.

President Smith, of Trinity College has declined to accept the tender of the bishopric of Easton, Md. The interests of the college have flourished under his management and it would have been a serious loss to Trinity had he consented to sever his connection with that institution. - Yale News.

There are a few serious mistakes in the Index. For instance, F. L. Dean, of Harvard, took second prize in the bicycle race at the Mott Haven sports, instead of Benton of Columbia. The feather-weight sparring, and not the feather-weight wrestling, was contested at the second winter meeting. The heavy-weight wrestling, which was won by Mr. Keith, '85, has been altogether omitted.

The CRIMSON stands corrected. A very mathematical correspondent has sent in several pages of figures by which he shows that 14 men at a table can be arranged in 87,178,291,200 different ways, not 87,396,291,201 as formerly announced; and 12 men in 479,001,600 different ways, not 478,001,600. The differences in these calculations are serious, and the matter should be brought up at the next mathematical seminar. Practical questions of this sort should not be neglected.