All special notices must now be given to Leavitt & Peirce. No notices to be inserted more than one day will be received after 7.30 p.m.

Mr. Irving Augustus Ruland '89. has been elected a regular member of the CRIMSON staff.

The Trinity Tablet proposes that the editors of all college papers arrange a banquet at Springfield.

One member of the freshman class at Yale has subscribed seventy-five dollars to the Base-Ball Association.

Sunday's Herald had an able editoria summing up the results of Professor Palmer's discussion of the Elective System.

Prof. Whitney of Yale, is corresponding member of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences. - Yale News.

The Boston Advertiser contained a column review of Prof. Royce's "Tennyson and Pessimism" in the last Monthly.

It is rumored that Mr. W. A Brooks, '87, is going to try for the hammer and shoe contests in the spring.

Gen. Walker of the Institute of Technology has been elected president of the American Statistical Society.

A concert will be given in New York sometime within the next few weeks by the Princeton Glee Club.

The Columbia College Dramatic Club is soon to produce two farces, one entitled the "Buzzards," and the other "My Turn Next," the proceeds of which are to be given to the university crew. - Yale News.

The Yale College orchestra will make its first appearance a week from Monday evening on the occasion of the promenade concert.

The Students of the University of Pennsylvania are soon to present a play, for the benefit of their Base Ball Association.

It is said on good authority that Spies, the condemned anarchist who is engaged to Miss Van Zandt of Chicago, is a graduate of Yale.

The University of Pennsylvania has less holidays than any other college in the country. The vacation is inversely as the work done. - Amherst Student.

Prof. Sloane of Princeton has an article on Bancroft in the January number of the Century, and Dr. McCosh's new book on "The Emotions" is expected soon.

The Washington alumni have taken the initiative in an effort to erect a monument to the memory of Ex-President McLean, and have invited the co-operation of the other associations.

We are glad to hear it: It is probable that new dormitories will soon be erected at Harvard. They are to have all the newest steam heating appliances and a bath room, with hot and cold water, attached to each set of rooms. - Yale News.

The February number of Harper's Magazine is just out, and contains the first numbers of Mr. Howells' new story, "April Hopes"; this instalment is entirely devoted to Class Day at Harvard. It is a clever description enough, though one would judge that Mr. Howel's has not seen a class day for the last seven years, on account of certain little inaccuracies which are noticeable to the initiated.

The CRIMSON has received the Congressional Record of Dec. 17, 1886, containing an account of the proceedings which have been taken in the U. S. Senate by Mr. Gorman to insure a memorial of the one hundredth anniversary of the constitution of the U. S., and the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus. It is proposed to celebrate the first of these two great events in 1880 and the latter in 1892. The last celebration will include a permanent exposition of the Americas and will be carried out on a grander scale than any exposition which has ever been seen in this country.