Sophomore themes are due to-day.

The second '89 crew began rowing yesterday afternoon.

Mr. W. T. Talbot, '87, has been appointed acting president of the CRIMSON.

Mr. C. S. Hervey, '88, has resigned from the board of editors of the CRIMSON.

The class crew rowing machines have at last been repaired, and were in the gymnasium ready for use yesterday.

Prof. Cohn, while walking along the street the other day, slipped on some ice and sprained his wrist very badly.

The library of the Scientific School has recently been enlarged by the addition of many valuable books on Mechanics, Engineering and Electricity. Prof. Chaplin has shown great discernment in his selection.

An account of the work in archaeology which Dr. Putnam of the Peabody Museum has recently been doing in the West, has appeared in the Boston Herald and in last week's Transcript.

Yale boating men are exceedingly well pleased at the success of the stationary barge in a tank of water. They think that before long the other colleges will be compelled to use the same thing. - Ex.

Yale will probably put a "veteran" crew upon the water this spring. The result of the race with Harvard will go a great way toward determining the disputed question of the comparative merits of "veteran" and so-called "raw" crews. - Ex.

The Yale News speaking editorially of the prospect of the freshman nine, says: "We hope that '90 will take a lesson from its poor work in foot-ball and place in the field next spring a team of which the university will not be ashamed."

To attest the growing popularity of tobogganing as a sport, it is estimated that there are now about twenty-five slides in and about Boston. Thus far this year, there have been but a few trifling accidents and the weather has proved all that could be desired.

There are now twenty men trying for the freshman crew. They are, as a rule, good solid looking men and ought to give a good account of themselves at New London next spring. The heaviest man trying weighs 183 pounds and the lightest 138.

Prof. Chaplin of the Lawrence Scientific School, has received many specimens of stones from the different quarries in this vicinity. He has also been presented with several samples of sewer pipes, with which he intends to illustrate his lecture on hydraulics.

The following is a short extract taken from yesterday's Globe with reference to athletics at Yale:

"The candidates for the university nine commenced the winter training yesterday afternoon. They will practice in the cage an hour a day, and will pay particular attention to batting. They will be coached by Jesse Dann, the captain of the team, and by O'Rourke of the New Yorks, who is in the Law School. Dann, the great back stop, is to try his hand at pitching, so that in the event of any accident to Stagg, the regular university pitcher, there will be some one to take his place. The outlook for next season is considered here to be very promising. Harvard, the only antagonist Yale really fears, is sadly cripled by the loss of her crack battery, and some of her heaviest batsmen, and it now looks to Yale men as though they would have a walkover.