Instructor C. E. Hamlin, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, is reported to be seriously ill.

Prof. Alexander Agassiz sailed on the Werra from New York to Bremen last week.

A movement is on foot to form a New England Association of the Alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy.

The Dean is making an investigation into the matter of absences just before and after the recess.

A. A. Waterman, '85, well known as the superintendent of the Co-operative, spent his holidays in Cambridge.

Sheffield freshmen suffered from an overflow of the boilers in the Yale Art School, whereby about thirty of their portfolios were ruined.

As usual the yard was not lighted during the recess, and the lack of any moonlight made the walking still more difficult and dangerous.

The "Harvard Quartette" and L. L. Winter, '86, reader, assisted in the entertainment at the Cambridge High School Alumni reunion last Friday evening.

Mme. Greville gave an informal sketch of the life and novels of Tourgenieff in Lyceum Hall last Tuesday afternoon. She was introduced by Col. Higginson.

Yale papers, in commenting on the exhorbitant charges for rooms at Harvard, should do our college justice by comparing also, the tuition and the endowments for scholarships.

The students in Pol. Econ. will find food for reflection and criticism in the speeches made at the recent dinner tendered visiting senators and representatives by the merchants of Boston.

The management of the H. U. B. C. have sent out circulars asking for subscriptions for a new hull for the launch. A vigorous effort will also be made towards paying off the debt of the club.

A sensational story appeared in the New York papers last Wednesday describing a fight between two Harvard students over a sweet-heart. It is needless to say the article was without the slightest vestige of truth.

Professor E. D. Sanborn, of Dartmouth, died last Tuesday. He was aged seventy-seven years, and his long life had been given largely to his college. His daughter is Miss Kate Sanborn.

At a recent meeting of the Sophomore Debating Society of Yale the subject, "Resolved, That the study of the classics in college ought to be optional," after being thoroughly discussed, was decided in the negative.

Prof. James Russell Lowell delivered the dedicatory oration of the Chelsea Public Library last Tuesday evening. Prof. Lowell was also entertained by the St. Botolph Club in Boston on the evening of New Year's day.

B. K. Heaton, a graduate of Yale College in the class of '85 and a member of the junior class of the Yale Law School, died in his room in the old laboratory, on the college campus last Thursday from overstudy. He was trying to do two years' work in the Law School in one.

Yale is determined to be ahead of Harvard in one particular at all hazards. Early in the term a meeting will be held by all the students to vote on the question of having morning chapel at 7.30 instead of 8.10 as hitherto. The object is that all the students may have two hours free from recitations in the afternoon. The faculty have agreed to make the change, provided the students determine upon it.