The Advocate will be out to-day.

It is rumored that President Eliot has exhausted his prayer cuts.

It is expected that some of the H. C. C. canoes will be launched in a few days.

Eighty-eight won two prizes out of six in the series of shot gun matches just closed.

There are about ten American colleges in which mortar-boards have been adopted.

Inquiries are common as to whether a supplementary winter meeting is to be held this year.

About $800 has been subscribed to the Williams base ball fund, by one quarter of the men in college.

During the past six years, Williston Seminary has furnished the captains of six Yale university base-ball teams.

The intense cold of last week cracked the Dartmouth Chapel bell, but strange to say, it did not seem to effect our own.

The university crew was again on the water yesterday afternoon. Today all the class crews will take to their boats.

At Cornell, electric lights have been placed in the library and Senior reading room as an experiment; and, if they prove satisfactory, they will be retained.

President Eliot will give a reception to Henry Irving, after Mr. Irving's lecture in Sanders Theatre, next Monday evening.

There will be a lecture in History 11 on Saturday, when Asst. Prof. Macvane will probably give out the marks for the first half year.

The following men were elected foot ball directors for the ensuing year at Princeton: Shaw, '86; Bradford, and Green, '87, and Mercur, '88.

The annual meeting of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association will take place on May 23rd, at the Manhattan Athletic grounds, New York.