Princeton is to have a polo club.
Marks are out in N. H. 5 and Political Economy 1.
Latin 5 has begun the reading of the 11th book of Tacitus.
There are four lacrosse clubs at Cambridge University, England.
Eighteen men are trying for the Columbia crew.
Columbia has started an amateur Photographic Society.
The Princeton nine has had out-door practice during the warm weather.
Marks are out in English 9, and can be obtained at the instructor's rooms.
The book for the annual dinner of the Shooting Club has been placed at Bartlett's for signatures.
The old wooden building which stood upon the site of the proposed new Hilton dormitory has been removed.
At ultra-classical Williams, senior elective Latin is taken by three men, and senior Greek by only two.
The foot-ball men at Yale now wear pretty gold watch charms, appropriate trophies of last year's championship.
There was a lecture on "Silver Printing," delivered before the Harvard Society of Photographers last evening.
The report of the "Yale Field Corporation" shows that over $50,000 has been expended on the new athletic grounds, and there is a call for more funds.
Lowell has just opened a new gymnasium fitted up under the direction of Dr. Sargent, of Cambridge.
Dr. Andrew P. Peabody has resigned from the board of trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy.
Speaking of the Eliot-McCosh debate, "there does not seem to be much doubt as to who won the last inter-collegiate championship."- (Princetonian.
The Oxford and Cambridge 'varsity crews have gone into active training with the beginning of Lent. General opinion is turning in favor of Cambridge for the race.
Although Yale has withdrawn from the Lacrosse Association, nevertheless she will put a lacrosse team in the field, and will play Princeton.
The course of lectures under the auspices of the Harvard Philosophical Club will be continued this evening, by a lecture by Dr. C. C. Everett, on "The Philosophy of Poetry."
The New York Times declares that there is, perhaps, a trifle of British arrogance in the remark of Lord Coleridge to the students of Yale, that "Yale, in its general air, surroundings and curriculum, reminded him very much of Eton."
In the trial of the Freshman Glee Club, a number of basses and second tenor's were found, but no good first tenor. This voice seems remarkably scarce when the size of the college is considered. Can it be that the required standard is too high.
The six fastest amateur runners in America at one-quarter mile are L. E. Myers, time, 48 3-5 sec.; H. S. Brooks, 50 1-5 sec.; J. A. Hodges, 51 sec.; Wm. Goodwin, Jr., 51 1-5 sec.; J. L. Jenkins, 51 1-2 sec.; and T. Murphy, 52 1-2 sec.
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