Pol. Econ. 1 has taken up the subject of Banking.

The track on Holmes is in good condition for running.

Yale, Princeton and Columbia are struggling for the chess championship.

Brayton Ives has contributed $1,000 towards the new Yale gymnasium.

The mail is now collected from the box in the yard at midnight.

The new candidates for the sophomore crew have gone into active skating.

The prayer petition will be distributed to the students on Wednesday or Thursday next.

Hammond LaMonte, '86, has been elected a regular editor of the CRIMSON.

The shower-bath at the gymnasium will not sprinkle. This is a serious defect.

L. McK. Garrison, '88, has resigned the secretaryship of the CRIMSON. Mr. W. Barnes, Jr., has been elected to the position.

Several men took advantage of the ice on the little pond near Glacialis yesterday to skate. If the cold continues, Fresh Pond will be fit to skate upon in another day or two.

The north entry of Thayer is without exception inhabited by the freshest, most disorderly freshmen in college. The upperclassmen talk of tar and feathers unless the noise in the entry is stopped.

The freshmen with commendable energy kept nearly a full eight rowing during the recess.

J. W. Hardon, '82, who delivered the oration at the Law School last year, is in the office of Evarts, Choate and Beaman.

'84, Shiro Shiba, who is now a professor of Political Economy and a member of the Japanese Economical Society, has written a novel entitled, "Kajin-no-kigu." It is spoken of in highest terms by the Japanese Press, and among the honorary preface writers are Gen. Tani and Mr. Kim Okyuen. - Pennsylvanian.

Thoughtful Boston young lady, intensely interested in ancient history, to Harvard junior: "Ah, Mr. H -, when you think of the old Egyptians do you not feel impressed with the sense of our indebtedness to the great Rosetta Stone?" Harvard junior, slightly discomposed, but coming gallantly forward: "Yes, yes indeed; but then her reign only gives us a further proof of woman's influence, you know." Enthusiastic young lady descends to a lower level. - Boston Journal.

The Russian Government is about to establish at St. Petersburg, a Polyglot college, where perhaps eighty-five languages will be taught. A Russian professor, himself speaking over a score of languages, is about to publish Mezzofanti's method of learning a foreign tongue. "Every man of average capability can learn any foreign language within a month," says the Professor, "and whoever fails is lazy or a stupid fellow."

One hundred and sixty-four of the members of the present House have had collegiate or academic educations, and eighty put themselves down as having been trained at the common schools. The majority of collegiatebred men come from small country colleges, academies and seminaries, and many of them state that they have graduated at some noted law school, such as Harvard, Ann Arbor, or New York. Harvard has seven college graduates, Princeton four, the University of Virginia four, Bowdoin two, Dartmouth four, Union three, Yale two, Amherst two, Brown two, Ann Arbor five, Jefferson two, Franklin two, and numerous other colleges one.