Meyer, '88, has left college.

Captain Phillips has gone south for his health.

The 2nd Roberts Hall Assembly occurs this evening.

The recent thaw has formed several natural rinks in the yard.

The Shakespere Club held their first meeting after the semis, yesterday evening.

The marks are already out in a large number of courses. This is unexpected promptness.

Marks in Philosophy 1 were given out yesterday. The average mark reached was very high.

The next Thesis in Philosophy 4 will be due Thursday, Feb. 26, the subject being Mill's Liberty.

The attention of the '86 men is called to the notice of the Junior class meeting to be held to-night.

President Eliot has been elected President of the Boston Athenaeum for the ensuing year.

Mr. G. A. Hopkins has been chosen captain of '88's tug-of-war team, and will form a team at once.

Mr. Walter Soren '83, the celebrated jumper and athlete was at the gymnasium, Tuesday afternoon.

Tug-of-war practice has now begun in earnest. Easton, L. S., has been coaching the freshman captain in anchoring.

Four new men have entered the Veterinary School since the opening of the college year. There are now 25 men in that department.

At Yale the championship colors won by the college, are used as decorations for the hall in which the "Junior Promenades" are held.

Hon. William Henry Rawle of Philadelphia has accepted an invitation to deliver the oration at the annual meet of the Phi Beta Kappa this year.

Joseph Cook says that the existence of Socialism and kindred evils in Germany is partly accounted for by the materialistic tendencies of the professors in the Universities.

Col. Bancroft's first order, in his new capacity as Superintendent of the Cambridge Railway, forbids all loafing and scuffling on the part of employees of the road, near the Harvard Square offices.

A foot ball team composed of Frenchmen recently undertook to make a tour through England: before they had played three games, however, they were so roughly handled that they were obliged to abandon the project.

Daniel Pratt having returned from his two weeks vacation, which he has been spending at Deer Island at the expense of the city of Boston, delivered his first lecture of the second half year in the transept of Memorial Hall, yesterday.

"Yale has at last organized a co-operative society, and it cost her a pang, no doubt, to follow the lead of her rival, Harvard; but her good sense perceived the advantages of co-operation which are manifest wherever it has been tried," says the Student.

President White, of Cornell, has requested the students not to smoke upon the campus or grounds. The Cornell Sun indulges in the hope that certain professors will not consider themselves exempt from this gentlemanly request.

Greek 2 will devote the Saturday recitations during the remainder of the year to the "Oedippus," of Sophocles: the recitations on Tuesday and Thursday, during February, will be given to the "Birds" of Aristophanes: during March, these recitations will be employed in completing the work in Thucydides.