There will be no symphony in Boston next Saturday evening.

According to the Index there is a gain of four college societies over last year.

There are three young Yale men in the present Congress, namely: Kean, '76; Dubois, '71 and Russell, '73.

There will be an hour examination in Latin B on Thursday, Dec. 15, at 10 o'clock, in Sever 37.

The annual football match between Cambridge and Oxford universities takes place today.

The new gymnasium at Trinity contains a theatre which will be used for college entertainments.

Princeton has a college telegraph company which has stations in all the dormitories.-Columbia Spectator.

F. M. Russell, of Bowdoin College. has made a lift of 1170 pounds, which is the best ever made under the Sargent system.

Yale has just received a bequest of $26,000, of which some $15,000 is to go into the fund for general expenses. Such a bequest is just what is needed here.

In the Boston city election yesterday, Mayor O'Brien was re-elected over Mr. Hart by about 1700 plurality. The vote on the liquor question resulted in favor of license by over 5,000 majority.

The candidates for the Yale 'varsity crew have stopped rowing on the harbor, and practiced last Saturday in the tank.

The students of the University of Virginia have invited President Cleveland to attend the commencement exercises of the university next summer.

The contract for building the Harvard Bridge has been awarded to the Boston Bridge Works, whose bid was $183,000.

The Political Economy Library in University will kept open until 10 p. m. if a sufficient number of students express their intentions of using it until that hour.

The old wooden buildings on the water front near the junction of Charles and Cambridge streets, are being removed for the Charles river embankment.

The first of the two exhibition jumps to be given by Page, U. of Pennsylvania, '87, before retiring, will take place in Baltimore, Dec. 21, and the second at the Inter-Collegiate games next spring.

The Exeter football management have declared that they would never arrange any more matches with Tufts College. It is claimed the Tufts are utterly unreliable in the matter of contests.

Applicants for tickets for the Glee Club Pierian concert will probably be able to find some at Sever's during the next two days, as all tickets still unsold and in the possession of members must be returned for public sale at Sever's before 12 a. m. today.