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.

There were 8, 781 medical students in this country in 1873, and 15, 151 in 1882. The medical schools increased during the same period from 94 to 134.

It is said that the '88 tug-of-war team recently pulled three inches from a team anchored by Carey, the amateur champion anchor of New England.

Mr. C. G. Rupert, president of the Sheff. Gun Club of Yale, has written to the management of the Shooting Club with a view to arranging a rifle match between the colleges.

The management of the symphony concerts desire to publicly thank the large corps of ushers who so kindly assisted (by their absence), at last night's concert.

The ground on Holmes and Jarvis is very soft upon the surface, but two inches down, it is still hard with frost. How to cross Holmes field is a problem, there is so much ice and water upon the track.

The ice is out of the river above the boat house when the tide is out. When the tide comes in, the floating ice comes in with it, and prevents anyone from getting to the front of the boat house.

Capt. Winslow has notified all men whose chances are good for getting on the university nine, that they must remain in Cambridge during the vacation, provided the weather is good for out-door practice

Wednesday, a few freshman ball players, and over a dozen lacrosse men practised upon Jarvis. Yesterday, the lacrosse men, and freshmen were out again, and a few of the university nine batted and fielded upon Jarvis.