Justin McCarthy, the great Irish champion for Home Rule in Ireland, will address the students of Cornell next Saturday evening. The subject of his address is "The Cause of Ireland."

The following men are now rowing as candidates for the University crew under Capt. Keyes.: Russell, '87, Adams, '88, Butler, '88, Porter, '88, Wood, '88, Hale, '88, Schroll, '86, Davis, '89 and Parker '89.

Rev. Mr. Green who is to preach in Appleton chapel next Sunday, is the best known Episcopal clergyman of Providence, and is said to rank next to Dr. Brooks in the list of New England preachers of the Episcopal church.

The plans for a new library building at Cornell to cost $150,000 and to hold 600,000 volumes have been submitted to Pres. Adams and exPresident White. The plans will be recommended for adoption at the next meeting of the University trustees.

Next Monday evening the freshmen hold a mass meeting to decide whether or no the Yale freshmen shall take part in the race next June. Columbia has just given her consent to Yale's rowing, at this late date, and now it only remains for Harvard to make her decision.

Dr. William Perry, aged 98, and the oldest graduate of Harvard, died yesterday morning at his house at Exeter, N. H. He was the sole survivor of the passengers in Fulton's first steamboat. He was born in Norton, Mass., in 1788, and was a member of the class of 1811, Harvard College. The only surviving member of that class is William R. Rever of Plymouth, Mass, who is 76 years old. Dr. Perry was the grandfather of Sarah Orne Jewett, the authoress.