There will be a cut in N. H. 4 on Friday.

The Yale crew is $1200 in debt. The News urges the college to pay it off.

The regular exercises in Philosophy 6 will be held to-morrow, at 11 a.m., in Sever 17.

The Yale News evilly remarks that no freshmen are candidates for the Harvard Mott Haven team.

Theme V of the sophomore themes, will be returned at Sever 5 to-day; the odd numbers only.

The foot-ball captain for next year will be chosen to-day by ballot, at Captain Kimball's room.

The library and the reading-room at Cornell are lighted by incandescent electric lamps.

The sophomore and freshman classes at Amherst are exactly equal in number.

The question of having a monthly at Amherst of a character similar to the Yale Lit, is now, it is said, definitely settled, and the magazine is an assured success.

The five hundredth anniversary of Heidelberg University, will occur the second week of August this year.

The Oxford-Cambridge eight-oared race will come off on the Thames, April 17.

One hundred and fifty men in '89 voted for members of the conference committee. A very good showing for a freshman class.

The attempt to change the name of Yale College to Yale University, is meeting with decided opposition from many Yale alumni who consider Yale College a "name of honor and glory."

A very interesting little account of the experiences of our last year's freshman crew at New London has just appeared. A few copies are on sale at Sever's.

John M. Merriam has resigned his position as president of the CRIMSON. A. H. Lloyd will succeed him; and W. A. Hervey will fill the position of managing editor, that position being vacated by Mr. Lloyd.

Officers of the Inter-collegiate Boating Association for the coming year are as follows: H. D. Hyatt, Cornell, president; S. F. Houston, U. of Penn., vice-pres.; Gardner Colby, Brown, secretary and treasurer.

It is said that the historian, Bancroft, is one of the only two Americans now living who ever met Goethe. The other is George H. Calvert, the scholar and poet, who is now eighty-three years old.

Robert Winston has been engaged as trainer by the officers of the Yale Ath. Association, and he will hereafter be in the gymnasium to coach men who wish to take part in either the winter or spring games.

William Pennell, of the University of Pennsylvania gymnasium, declares that rubber soled shoes are bad for the feet, but he will not prohibit their use in the gymnasium. He recommends light canvass shoes, with leather soles.

J. C. Kebabian, of the class of '88, from Rodosto, Turkey, has invented an instrument for drawing spherical angles and figures of any degree of area. The device is a very simple one and a patent will probably he taken out. - Yale News.