Mr. J. S. Russell is said to be improving.

There are eighteen men now trying for positions on the sophomore crew.

There are 760 men in the Institute of Technology this year.

Mr. Wendell gave cuts in his courses yesterday.

About thirty men are trying for the Yale Mott Haven team.

There was a cut in Political Economy 4 yesterday.

There will be a recitation in N. H. 4 on Monday.

The university crew at Yale has just begun work in the gymnasium.

English 8 will finish Byron next week.

The text-books in Philosophy 2 have not yet arrived.

Aristotle's Ethics will be taken up after the mid-years by Greek 8.

Examinations will begin at Lasell next week.

Freshman recitations will stop for the mid-year examinations next week Saturday.

The freshmen in the Sheffield Scientific School are obliged to attend club-swinging twice a week.

There will be no mid-year examination in Philosophy I, but an hour examination will be held sometime in March.

The work of the first half year in History 13 will end with the administration of John Quincy Adams.

The next theme in English 5 is due Friday, Jan. 22. Subject, "A Review of the Year 1885."

The mid-year examination in English 8 will comprehend the works of Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Southey and Scott.

Mr. Hamilton, '87. has written an essay on the "Reasons for the Coming of the Pilgrims" for the Old South prize. It will soon be published in book form.

The theses on Bentham in Philosophy 4 are due any time before January 20. Prof. Palmer will begin his criticism of the "Morals and Legislation" to-day.

The University of Pennsylvania has rented the old depot of the Pennsylvania railroad for base-ball practice. The depot is a square, long, and 100 feet wide.

The Yale freshmen have had their measurements taken, similar to those taken by Dr. Sargent here. The average size of their chests is 84 centimetres (natural), and 89 centimetres (inflated). Forearm, 25; upper arm, 28.5.

A Chicago young lady was looking at three large photographs representing the foot-ball teams of Yale, Princeton and Harvard, for the year 1885. Her father was a Harvard man, her fiance was a Princeton man; and her fiance's father was a Yale man. After scrutinizing each picture critically, she gave as her conviction that the Princeton men were the handsomest, the Harvard men the most distinguished, and the Yale men the most enduring. - Ex.

The faculty of Cornell has issued the following proclamation: "That, for the present, attendance at recitations and lectures shall be made voluntary for students of all classes; provided that in case any student shall so neglect his work by absence or otherwise as to impair or endanger his own standing, or the scholarship of the class, he may, after due warning, with the approval of the head of the department in which the neglect occurs, and with the approval of the president of the university, be excluded from attendance in the class and from the ensuing examination.