Prof. Pickering, Director of the Observatory, has been honored with a gold medal from the Royal Astronomical Society of England.

The Columbia sophomore class has petitioned the faculty that Greek, Latin and Anglo Saxon be made elective studies in the junior and senior year.

The back stretch of the running track next to the pole will not be in condition for a week. At present all who are training have to run a yard wide of it.

It was a great sight on Monday to see the heavy batters of the Harvard nine come proudly to the bat only to be regularly retired by the unfortunate three strikes.

A prominent base-ball man says that Bickham's strong point this year will be a "rise and drop" curve, a favorite curve with Lynch of the Metropolitans, who has been training him. - Yale News.

Since the announcement in yesterday's paper that the H. U. B. B. C. will give cups to the champion "amateur" nine, already a number of nines have been organized, and the contest promises to be as interesting as that of last year when the CRIMSON offered cups.

The Boston performances of the Hasty Pudding Club theatricals will take place at Horticultural Hall on Tremont Street, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week. The performance on Thursday will begin at 2.30 p. m. those on Friday and Saturday at 8.30 p.m.

Judge Gideon Wells, president of the Yale Alumni Association of Western Massachusetts, is put forward by the Springfield Republican for fellow of Yale College. His choice, it is urged, would be a proper recognition of Massachusetts' interest in the old university.

The Columbia 'varsity crew is now rowing as follows: Bow, Applegate, 165; 2, C. A. Stephens, 160; 3. G. H. Stephens, 165; 4. Warren, 160; 5. Donnelly, 175; 6. Harris, 178; 7, Beck with, 167; stroke, Lockwood, 165; coxswain, Morrel, 110. The substitutes are: Rouvier, 167; Richards, 162, and Meikleham, 176.