Profesfor Day has presented to the library of Yale College, a volume which once belonged to Gratius, and has great historical interest. It is an Arabic version of the New Testament.
A cable despatch from England says that one of the men of the Cambridge crew is hopelessly ill, and as it is too late to properly train a substitute, Oxford is certain to win the university boat race.
The Boston Advertiser suggests that the college co-operative societies which are now in full working order at Yale Harvard, and Ann Arbor, could combine, and receive even larger reductions in text books, and other articles which are needed by all.
The Harvard Union meets this evening. The question for debate is, "Resolved, that the members of the President's cabinet should have power to propose and discuss measures in Congress." The regular disputants are as follows: Affirmative, C. A. Strong, '85, H. Page, '88; negative, F. B. Taylor, C. S. Stedman, '87.
The section in Greek 5 yesterday voted to drop the reading of Greek plays, and to substitute a proportionate amount of work in the second book of Herodotus. All students who wish copies of the edition used, (Harper's text), must leave their names in the small room adjourning Sever 30, on or before Wednesday, as the class will begin reading Herodotus on Friday.