Candidates for positions of the Princeton University nine go into active training immediately after Christmas vacation.

The Herald thinks that Colony will stroke the 'varsity this year. He had the longest reach last year of any of the men in the boat.

The report of President Capen of Tufts, is out. He recommends the building of new laboratories and dormatories. The college is flourishing.

The university of Cincinnati met with a loss of $30,000 by fire Nov. 7. The origin of the fire is supposed to be spontaneous combustion in the chemical laboratory.

Rev. Geo. A Gordon, of the new Old South Church of Boston, preached a marked sermon in Appleton Chapel last evening on the "Dumbness of Unbelief."

'89 has presumably more candidates for coxswain than men in the boat. - Acta Columbiana. This is the way our item of Saturday would have appeared, but for a mistake of the printer.

The fellow students of Miss Bessie Hincks, whose sad death occurred last summer, have placed a memorial to her in the Annex library, in the shape of 250 volumes.

The Yale Glee Club will make its winter tour between Dec. 28 and Jan. 7. The cities which will be favored with concerts include, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.