A box for contributions to the Globe Theatre meetings has been placed in Leavitt and Peirce's.

Owing to the illness of Professor Childs there was no recitation in English 2 yesterday morning.

Professor Royce has recovered from his recent illness and has resumed-his courses.

"The average student at Brown studies but twelve hours weekly." -Brunonian.

Duane, '89, has been elected captain of the Technology foot-ball for next year.

The Brunonian has issued a Christmas edition in an enlarged form, which contains much interesting matter.

The Riverside Boat Club, which has a boat-house a few miles up the Charles river, has decided to build a new and larger house on the same site.

The students are reminded of the fact that, by the rules of the library, every man who leaves Cambridge during the Christmas recess is required to return all borrowed books before going.

Professor Norton requests us to state that he will be at home on Christmas eve from eight to ten o'clock, and will very glad to see any students whether previously known to him or not.

It has been officially announced that the Reference Library in University would be open until 10 p. m., but as a matter of fact it is still closed regularly at 9.

The next number of the Tech will be a special Christmas edition, with extra illustrations, and probably a photogravure of the champion foot-ball team.

Probably few men have noticed the manuscript proclamation of George Washington, signed by George Washington and Timothy Pickering, his secretary of state, which hangs in the left end of the reading room in the library.

There is to be a public toboggan slide built on the Union Athletic Grounds, in Boston. The will be two slides in opposite directions after the Russian style.

The required $30,000 have been raised and Dr. Peters's Babylonian expedition, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, will leave Philadelphia early in January.

At the Queen's College sports at Oxford, Eng., recently, F. J. K. Cross of the university ran a half mile in 1 min. 56 4-5 sec., his previous record being 1 min. 57 secs. The conditions on the day of performance were very unfavorable to record breaking.

The result of the last series of matches contested at the Shooting Club is as follows: Match A-First prize, Lamb; 2nd prize, Greene. Match B-First prize, Greene; 2nd prize, Lamb. Match C-First prize, Marquand; second prize, D. C. Holder.

The annual banquet of the New England alumni of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, was held last evening at the Parker House, Boston. General Francis A. Walker, president of the M. I. T., presided, and the Hon. John Haskell Burter acted as toastmaster.

The Bruuonian, the bi-weekly paper of the Brown University students, advocates the inauguration of theatrical entertainments, to be given by the different college societies in aid of the 'varsity nine. Lack of funds has been a great drawback to the success of the nine in past years.

The Back Bay Minstrel Club, of Boston, will give an entertainment in Union Hall, on the evening of Jan. 3rd, 1888. The entertainment bids fair to be a success, musically and financially, and deserves the support of the public since the proceeds are to be devoted to charitable objects.

A general increase has been made in the rent of college rooms at Yale. This is due to a necessity for a larger income. The annual income of Yale has always been small, but it is a doubtful expediency which seeks to augment it by an increase in term bills. One of Yale's boasts has been that her expenses were small compared with other prominent universities, but this claim can no longer be made.- New Haven Union.