The Amherst nine is now in training.

The winter term at Yale does not begin until Jan. 7.

The Christian Brethren will observe the week of prayer.

A large number of men are in training for the winter meetings.

The brass band has recently received reinforcements from '86.

Harvard has more graduates in the present Congress than any other college.

Candidates for the Mott Haven team will meet in the gymnasium this afternoon.

For the first day of the term the gymnasium was very much crowded yesterday.

Prof. Ladd of Yale has an article in the current Andover review combating Prof. Palmer's New Education.

Sixteen silk hats were observed on the sidewalk in front of Sawin's express office yesterday afternoon; also about seventy-five trunks.

Professor Child is giving a course of twelve lectures on "Early English Poetry," on Wednesday and Friday evenings, at the Institute, Boston.

There seems no doubt that Dartmouth will be out of the old league next year. - Williams Lit. It seems as if the Williams Lit. is just a trifle too previous.

All the physical examinations were finished before the vacation. Those men who signed for photographs will receive notice when to come to have them taken.

The text book in Phil. 2, "The Senses and the Intellect," is very late in coming out. It may be two or three weeks before the Co-operative Society will receive copies from New York.

One of the laboratories in Boylston was used almost every night during the recess. The midnight gas was burned until after 2.30 o'clock on Monday morning of last week.

The first college paper ever published in America was the Dartmouth Gazette, printed in the early days of this century. Daniel Webster's first literary efferts were contributions to this paper, - Ex.

One of our exchanges, the Kansas University Review has broken forth in poetry to the extent of fourteen pages, two columns to a page. By actual measurement, that makes twenty-eight feet.

At the next debate of the Union the question for discussion will be, "Resolved, That the percentage system of marking in vogue at Harvard should be abolished." The principal disputants will be, affirmative, G. P. Knapp, '87, and Herman Page, '88; negative, H. B. Hutchins, '86, and I. H. Bronson, Sp.