While on the train after the University of Pennsylvania game, the 'varsity foot-ball team elected the captain for the coming year. Mr. Holden, '88 was chosen by a unanimous vote.

A considerable number of Harvard graduates are at the University of Berlin this year.

The umpiring of Mr. Herrick in Saturday's foot-ball game gave general satisfaction.

The class crews are expected to make their appearance in the gymnasium this week.

There will be an hour examination in Philosophy 3 to-day a 3 o'clock in the Lawrence Scientific School.

Wallace, who played opposite Harding in the Yale game here, was the man who made the touchdown at Princeton.

The current issue of the Atlantic Monthly which contains James Russell Lowell's oration and Dr. Holmes' poem has had a very large sale.

It is again reported that Samuel Winslow. captain of the Harvard champion base-ball team of '85 will return to the Law School this winter.

A generous freshman exclaimed that the authorities should at least grant a Thanksgiving recess of three days to the instructors, if they do not see fit to give it to the students. This evidences an early development of Philosophy in the class of '90.

Nichols '86 batting average on the Beacons, for the past season was .302. He both caught and pitched for that club. His catching average was .863. his pitching .765.

Harvard foot-ball players would do well to read the article on the second page of yesterday's Boston Herald in regard to Yale's foot-ball tactics as compared with those of Harvard.

The decision of the foot-ball association in regard to the championship for 1886 is so little of a decision that we may expect to see the discussion of 1884 repeated with even greater vehemence than ever.