Yesterday's Herald had a long article on the candidates for the university nine.

There is talk of another pool tournament at Leavitt & Peirce's after the mid-years.

More reserved books were taken from the library Saturday than on any other day this year.

The Cambridge Lacrosse Association to the number of forty dined at the Vendome Saturday evening.

A. M. Cummings, '87, had a long and interesting editorial on "Prayers at Harvard" in yesterday's "Globe."

A well known instructor was seen to reprove a proctor for interfering with a student at a recent examination.

Yale and Princeton have professional coaches for their base-ball teams, and Yale has a professional coach for her crew.

The gymnasium was occupied all day Saturday by those who were getting it ready for the assembly in the evening.

Dartmouth is said to be exceedingly anxious to have half of the base-ball series played on her grounds this year.

A large number of men taking advantage of intervals between examinations, have left Cambridge for short vacations.

The second and last of the Cambridge Assemblies was held in the gymnasium Saturday. There was between five and six hundred present.

The Athletic Association has decided to hold the winter meetings one week earlier than usual this year, to wit: March 6, 13, and 20.

The marks in German A are said to be, on the average, unusually high. This should be a matter of gratification to the instructors as well as to the class.

In its last number the Advocate is mistaken in saying that the O. K. petition asks for the compulsory roll-call in the morning. The petition simply suggests that as a measure of discipline a roll-call would be better than prayers.

At a meeting of the senior class of Dartmouth Saturday, relative to the commencement orator, it was voted to secure, if possible, L. Q. C. Lamar, James Russell Lowell or Roscoe Conkling, preference in order named.

At half past two o'clock in the afternoon, preceding the examinations in N. H. 2, Prof. Mark will meet the class and answer all written questions which may be handed to him before two o'clock of that day.

In a recent discussion between a junior and sophomore as to whether New York or Boston was founded first, the junior calmly asserted that the latter city was settled in "thirteen hundred and something." Being reminded that the continent was not discovered until 1492, he wilted.

The Glee Club will give a concert at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, on Monday evening, March 1. On the following evening a concert will probably be given in Chickering Hall, under the auspices of the New York Harvard Club, for the benefit of the University Boat Club.