There will be no Vesper service next Thursday afternoon.

The freshman foot-ball team is said to be in debt.

The Princeton examinations will be held in the gymnasium this year.

There will be a cut in Political Economy VIII on next Tuesday, Dec. 20th.

There will be no recitations on next Friday, as it is the first day of the Christmas recess.

To-morrow evening's services in Appleton Chapel will be conducted by the Rev. Brook Herford of Boston.

Both branches of the Co-operative store will be kept open from 7 to 8.30 p. m until Christmas.

There are about thirty-five candidates training daily for the freshman crew.

T. W. Hulane, '89, has been elected captain of the University of Pennsylvania eleven for next year.

The will be an hour examination in English 8 on Tuesday, Dec. 20th, in Sever 5 and 6 at 3 p. m.

A long-felt desire has been fulfilled by the laying of the board walk from University past the chapel to Memorial Hall.

The Christmas recess begins Thursday afternoon, Dec. 22. Recitations will resume in all departments of the University on Tuesday morning, Jan. 3.

Anyone desiring to procure tickets for the Harvard religious meeting at the Globe Theatre, to-morrow evening, may obtain them by applying this afternoon at 39 Thayer.

A farce called "Creatures of Impulse," by Gilbert was given by the '91 Dramatic Club at Southboro, Thursday evening, in aid of the freshman eleven. The club was assisted by a quartette from the '91 Banjo Club.

According to Mr. E. G. Ravenstein, the English foot is used as the standard of length by countries having 471,000,000 inhabitants, the metre by 347,091,000 people, and the Castilian foot by 5,905,000. Denmark and Russia are the only countries in continental Europe which have not adopted the metre.

The publication of the "required reading" in Political Economy 4 has been undertaken as a sufficient number of subscribers has been obtained to defray the printing expenses. The pamphlet is expected to be ready directly after the Christmas recess.

The proposed new gymnasium for Yale will be built of brownstone, trimmed by some lighter material, and will cost $300,000. The plans have been approved, but President Dwight has not definitely granted the proposed corner lot diagonally opposite Peabody Museum.

A mass meeting of the college students of Boston, to which all students in the vicinity are cordially invited, will take place to-morrow afternoon at 3 p. m. in the B. Y. M. C. A. building, Boylston and Berkeley streets. There will be a short address on "Christian work among college men," by C. K. Ober, International College Secretary; F. K. Saunders; J. B. Reynolds, of Yale University, and Jno. H. Gray, Harvard University.