The Amherst gymnasium is reported in many of our exchanges as rivalling Hemenway. Perhaps this is true, the only difference being that the Amherst gymnasium cost $60,000 while it took $150,000 to build ours.

The University of Virginia prides itself upon the fact that out of ten graduates of its Medical Department, nine passed the Medical Examinations for admittance to the Navy, while out of ten applicants from Harvard, nine were rejected.

Mr. Turner, the instructor of gymnastics at Princeton, has offered three prizes for general excellence in that branch of athletics. Mr. Turner is the first instructor to make such a liberal offer and the competition among the students is very encouraging.

Students are reminded of the recent action of the Faculty with regard to blue books for the examinations. Any student failing to hand in his blue book in any course before the first day of the examinations will be excluded from an examination in that course.

The Biard prize at Princeton of $100 is awarded to R. W. Mason. This gentleman, who has the misfortune to be a hunchback, and is not four feet in height, has succeded in capturing both First Junior Orator prize last commencement and now the First Biard prize for oratory, and he is, moreover, the first man in Princeton College who ever took both these prizes.