The Advocate is out to-day.

There are at present 63 graduate students at Yale.

Bulletin boards have been placed at the heads of the stairways in Sever.

The prayer petition goes before the corporation on Monday.

Mr. Durant Cheever will not return to college until after the spring recess.

Amherst has six of last year's nine left.

Prof. Paine has set one of the choruses of the Ajax of Sophocle's to music.

Prof. J. W. White is employing this, his sabbatical year, in preparing his edition of the sixth book of Thucydides.

G. Droppers, G. P. Baker, Jr., and R. W. Keep have been elected members of the Philosophical Club.

Judge offers a prize of $100 for the most humorous and original idea for a colored cartoon, to be sent in by May 1.

The Yale News states authoritatively that Hamilton, '86, will not take part in the inter-collegiate games.

Dr. Washington Gladden has a very interesting article on "The Strength and Weakness of Socialism," in the March Century.

It is probable that Mr. G. A. Morrison will not recover from his present severe illness in time to return to college before the end of the April recess.

Exeter has obtained permission from the faculty to enter the proposed Base Ball League. A convention will be held at Boston in a short time.

There is some complaint among many men in a certain German course, because the instructor frequently detains them from 5 to 10 minutes after hours.

The late Henry N. Hudson, the Shakespearean scholar, bequeathed one third of his library to St. Paul's school.

Some Princeton men are earnestly working to have the old college cheer regenerated there, and made the regular cheer in preference to the one now in use.

All students interested in the study of Political Science will be glad to hear of the appointment of Dr. Taussig as Assistant Professor of Political Economy.

The tenth ten of the Institute of 1770 were elected last night as follows: Miner, Astor, H. H. Furness, Bliss, Baldwin, Francis, Ullrich, D. C. Holder, Livingood, Blossom.

An alarm from box 54, Memorial Hall, at 8.40 last evening emptied the dormitories inside of two minutes. The fire proved to be in the old barn which stands near the Physical Laboratory. It made a very pretty blaze.

Canon Farrar's "Sermons and Addresses in America" have been published in book form. The sermon delivered in Appleton Chapel, and the opening address at Johns Hopkins University are included in this volume, and will be particularly interesting to Harvard men.

G. D. Baird in Cyclist and Athlete says of the Manhattan A. A. games: "The most remarkable event was the running of Wells of Harvard, in the quarter. He ran the first 300 yards very slowly and finished the race in a long continued spurt which would take Myers to equal, and which would have won him the race but for an unfortunate tumble of the leaders at the finish."