Bernhard Berenson will act as President of the Monthly for the rest of the year.
A student at Vassar can limit her expenses including books, to twenty-five dollars a year.
Asaph Churchill has been elected captain of the junior crew vice C. F. Adams resigned.
Dr. McCosh's Psychology, published last June, has reached its fourth edition in six months.
The University of Bologna is soon to celebrate the eight hundredth anniversary of its foundation.
Gentlemen who have not yet paid their History 13 assessment of 40 cents are requested to do so to-day.
Mr. A. A. Hayes, '57, will soon publish a novel called "The Jesuits Ring," the scene of which is at Bar Harbor.
The management of the freshman navy are still waiting a reply to the challenge to the Harvard and Columbia freshmen.
Founder's Day was celebrated at Cornell last Wednesday, with a great deal of ceremony. Hereafter Founder's Day will be a regular annual holiday.
At their indoor meeting, the Athletic Association of the Mass. Institute of Technology cleared expenses for the first time in its history.
Several members of Yale have joined the Toboggan Club, are disgusted to find that they can take ladies or nonresidents only to the slide.
An attempt is being made at Andover to re-organize the Academy Boat Club. They have one or two shells which were sent as a present from Yale last year.
Prof. R. Lanciani, of the University of Rome, began a course of ten lectures on "Roman Archaeology" at John Hopkins, on Tuesday, January 4.
Students are advised to lay in a store of coal immediately, as the price of coal is steadily advancing in consequence of the strikes in the coal-fields in Pennsylvania.
A college man of good presence, who wants to earn money by evening work of the canvassing sort, can be accommodated with a good opportunity, at good pay, by addressing B., care CRIMSON printer, Cambridge.
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.
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