A volume on the methods of teaching history contains monograms by Prof. Emerton, Dr. Hart, and Dr. Scott of Harvard. The book will be found of interest to all students of History.

Yachting seems to be popular at Oxford. The University Sailing Club held a regatta on the 3rd of December, and has announced dates for five more races to be sailed during the coming term.

Mr. J. E. Thayer has been elected president of the Hasty Pudding Club. Messrs. W. W. Smith, D. E. White, and Bradford were elected a committee to arrange for the club spread on Class Day.

Italy has declared its seventeen universities open to women, and Switzerland. Norway, Sweden and Denmark have taken similar action, while France has opened the Sorbonne to women, and Russia its highest schools of medicine and surgery.

Twenty-five men attended the meeting for Mott Haven candidates. President Atkinson said a few words of the need of faithful work, and also of the advantages of being a member of the team; Baker, '86, spoke to the runners about starting.

A Yale senior, who was on his way to Ithaca, to attend the Cornell Junior Promenade, was arrested in New York, having been mistaken for an escaping criminal. Matters, however, were soon set to rights, and the senior was allowed to depart.

An item is going the rounds of the press stating that at Princeton a prize of $1500 is a warded every third year to the member of the sophomore class exhibiting the greatest proficiency in the classics. If this be true, the triennially favored classes must show an alarming increase in numbers,

The '85 tug-of-war team began practice yesterday afternoon. The four men of the old team, Gilman, Boyden, Gorham, and Simes, were all there. There is a great improbability of these men being able this year to get down to the proper weight, so that a change in the composition of the team may be necessary.