At the second winter meeting at Yale, Brown, '86, won the high kick, 8 feet 10 3-4 inches. The '87 S. tug-of-war team beat the college '87 team by 13 inches.

The library of Princeton college possesses the largest collection of books on Baptism in the world. There are 2,000 bound volumes and 3,000 pamphlets.

It is to be hoped that during the sparring at the next winter meeting the spectators will refrain from ejaculating the customary oh! whenever a well directed blow takes effect.

"It appearing that Oliver Dean Root, M. D., 1854, died at New Orleans in 1863, in the discharge of his duties as an assistant surgeon of the United States, it has been recently voted by the Corporation of Harvard University, that his name be placed on the tablets in Memorial Hall. - Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.

Henry S. Brooks, Yale's champion runner, has retired from active participation in track athletics. Brooks has covered 100 yards in 10 seconds, and 220 yards in 22 2-5 seconds. At the latter distance he defeated L. E. Myers. He is large heavy man, and this has always been against him in a quick start. His speed when under way, however, is tremendous. Brooks' favorite distance has been 220 yards, and no one except Baker of Harvard has ever beaten him at this dastance.