Some of the marks in German A are out.

Cornell is to establish a chair in Christian Ethics.

The number of men now training in the gymnasium is estimated at 175.

The Yale gymnasium authorities are having much trouble with sneak thieves.

The Yale News has an editorial in favor of the inter-scholastic base-ball league.

G. D. Hamlen, '87 has been elected captain of the Wesleyan foot-ball team for the coming year.

Mr. Carpenter, '85, who is now studying at the Paris School of Political Science has an article in the current number of the Nation on "Education for the Public Service."

The prayer petition will not be sent to the faculty and overseers until after the mid-years.

The new Yale gymnasium is expected to be in working order by the beginning of the college year 1887-88.

There is much complaint among the members of History 4, owing to the examination being written on the blackboard.

That old stronghold of Yale preparatory schools, Williston, will send nine men to Harvard and seven to Yale next year.

The Andover seniors have chosen their class-day officers as follows: Orator, Odlin; poet, Perry; historian, Lund.

The Cambridge-Oxford race will probably be rowed on the Thames April 5. The Cambridge crew were the first to get to work.

The Law School prayer petition received fifty-five names out of a possible seventy. It has been sent to the petition committee.

The eighth ten of the Institute of 1770 is as follows: Clyde, Lund, Fuller, Brush, Barnes, L. Thayer, Dean, Garrison, Overton, Brewer.

Steinitz defeated Zukertort in the first game at St. Louis in the International Chess tournament. The game took 5 hours and 20 minutes.

A course of lectures on the different professions will be delivered in Sever 11 on Tuesday evenings in February. They will supply a long felt want.

The Wesleyan catalogue has just been issued. The number of students is 193, fifty of whom are from Connecticut, and forty-seven from New York.

Judging from the large number of men who are trying for positions on the freshman tug-of-war team, eighty-nine will be able to select some strong men who will give the other classes a close contest next spring.

The Boston papers tell a story of a Yale poker game which was recently played. It was a jack pot and it had grown, after much heavy betting to $250. The loser, wonderful to relate, fainted on the show of hands. We are inclined to discredit this story for we think no Yale man would faint for a $250 pot.