The John Harvard Memorial Book is now on the shelves in the library.

The Cornell library has received some 2,000 volumes since June last.

The winter sports at Cornell were the best that the college has ever had.

President Eliot has been elected president of the national senate of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity.

As the date of the first Winter Meeting draws near, the gymnasium is more crowded than ever.

Edward Everett Hale is to deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration on commencement day at Brown.

The Amherst faculty subscribed $200 to the college base-ball team, thereby setting a good example to other like bodies.

Individual tugs-of-war, with unlimited weights, have been added to the list of events in the winter games at Yale.

The Yale Literary Magazine has a small editorial on the proposed changes in the admission examinations at Harvard.

At the Inter-collegiate Lacrosse Convention, Saturday, in New York, Yale withdrew her name from among the colleges of the association.

Taylor and Stearns of last year's Andover nine, are trying for the position of catcher on the Princeton and Amherst nines, respectively.

The Lasalla Club of Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, is to give an entertainment Thursday evening of this week. It is reported that quite a large delegation from Harvard will embrace this rare opportunity, getting an interior view of this generally well known, but, to us mysterious institution.

Prof. Harkness of Brown has refused the position of resident supervisor of the school at Athens.

Plummer, and Clement of '88, H. L Clark of '87; D. C. Clark, and Fessenden of '86; and Fogg, '85, will probably enter the Technology games on next Saturday.

Two overcoats were stolen last week from the hall at the entrance to the chemical laboratory. This was a pretty bold robbery, as men are going and coming in the laboratory at all times.

At the dinner of the Brown University Alumni in New York, Friday night, Mr. George William Curtis spoke at length upon the progress of the modern improvements in the colleges.

Dr. McCosh repeated by special request, his reply to Pres. Eliot's address recently delivered before the 19th Century Club in New York, composed of Princeton professors, and under-graduates.

The funeral of James Newton Garatt, who entered College in the class of 1884, and graduated with '83, and was last year an assistant in the Chemical Laboratory, is to be held at the Saratoga St. Church, East Boston, to-day, (Wednesday), at 1 P.M.

Mr. Woodrow Wilson, the author of "Congressional Government" which has excited so much attention, is a graduate of Princeton, Class '79, and has just accepted the position of Professor of History in Bryn Mawr College for women.

A marking system is to be introduced at Princeton, by which the students will be arranged in groups, and in determining the standing of the men, the difficulty of the subject will be taken into consideration, so that a man who receives a mark of 90 in a difficult subject, may stand higher than a man who receives a mark of 95 in an easy study.- (Ex.