Winter athletic work has begun at Cornell.

The Princeton lacrosse team is practicing in a large local skating rink.

There are 432 students at Dartmouth this year.

There will be no mid-year examinations in Spanish 1.

No theme on Byron is required in English 8 for the next lecture.

The Detroit Free Press speaks of President Eliot of Yale.

There will be no mid-year examination in Philosophy 11.

Mr. Russell, '87 has so far improved that he will soon return to Cambridge.

Examinations will be held in Surveying 2, on Feb. 3, and in Mechanics 1 on Feb. 13.

The whole senior class at Yale, with two exceptions, study Political Economy.

The Executive Committee of the Harvard Union for the ensuring half year will be as follows: R. B. Mahany, '88, chairman ex officio; H. B. Hutchins, '86; P. L. Sternbergh, '87; R. Duane, '88; G. A. Reisner, Jr., '89.

The new shot ordered by the Athletic Association have arrived. There are two 26 lbs. shot and a 21 lb. shot.

One of the answers sent in to the chapel petition advocates the substitution of roll-call instead of voluntary chapel.

Last Wednesday the Yale graduates at Washington were entertained by Secretary Whitney. President Porter was present.

The name of Mr. B. C. Henry, Musical editor of this paper, was accidentally omitted from the list of editors published in yesterday's issue.

After the last mail yesterday, 902 cards had been received by the committee on the Prayer Petition. Only 79 were without signatures.

It is said that the daily papers to which the members of English 5 have been referred are at the binder's and will not be placed in the library again until February.

Prof. Royce will meet the class in Philosophy 3 on next week Wednesday at the usual time, to answer questions about the course and the mid-year examination.

The power of the free trade movement among young men is shown by the fact that Yale has graduated 916 free traders, and but 30 protectionists during the last eleven years.

The last issue of the Lampoon is a brilliant one. The communications on "Anglomania" are excellent travesties on the Crimson's communications on that subject. Lampy indeed compares excellently with its more ambitious contemporaries. - Princetonian.

The meanest man in college has been discovered. He scratched the address from the face of one of the prayer petition postals, wrote another address on it, scratched the printed matter from the back, wrote a private message on it and mailed it.

Alarm No. 61 called out a large number of students last evening to a fire in a shop on Boylston St. An old woman present expressed matters pretty accurately when she said: "The poor sthudents! Shure 'nd there wus n't enough fur 'em ter warrum their hands wid!"