The next CRIMSON will be issued on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1883.

Smith has been elected captain of the Amherst base-ball team.

The Co-operative store will be open during most of the vacation.

The sixth number of the Advocate appeared yesterday.

The first set of college term bills will make their appearance to-pay.

There were cuts in Professor Child's English courses yesterday on account of his continued illness.

There was a cut in Prof. Laughlin's division of Political Economy I yesterday.

The new Yale catalogue is mild free to the fathers of all the men in the college.

It has been decided to give the members of the Yale foot-ball team miniature gold foot-balls as trophies.

Yale College increases its income $4,700 by the increased rental price of rooms.

It is said that only seventeen of the ninety-three Dartmouth freshmen use tobacco. The others have not yet got beyond the sweet fern period.- Ex.

The Russian universities of Kieff and Kasan have been closed owing to riotous outbreaks. They are following the example of the University of Moscow.

There have been ten thefts of late in the gymnasium of the Worcester Athletic Association. Several watches are among the articles missing.

College began to look rather empty yesterday. To-day one misses very many familiar faces. To-morrow will be lonesome.

J. G. King, '89, has resigned the managing-editorship of the CRIMSON, and W. D. Clark, '89, has been elected to fill his place.

Those who desire to give Christmas presents are reminded that the box for contributions for the Globe Theatre meetings is still at the Co-operative.

Governor Foraker, while lately addressing a body of students. said: "I would rather be a sophomore in college than governor of Ohio.- Princetonian.

The new Weston electric car was given a trial yesterday on the Cambridge Railroad and proved to be very successful. It remains to be seen what will be the effect of snow on the rails.

We wish again to call the attention of our readers to Professor Norton's statement in our columns that he will be glad to see any undergraduates on Christmas eve between 8 and 10 o'clock.

Josef Hofmann, the renowned boy planist, will make his first appearance in Boston in Music Hall, to morrow evening. He will also play on Monday evening at the same place.

A human tooth, roots and all, was recently found in a plate of beans at Memorial. It is supposed to be of prehistoric origin, and is at the disposal of the management.

A two-horned rhinoceros, the gift of the Hon. P. T. Barnum, has been received at the Barnum Museum, Tufts College. This is the only specimen of the kind in any college museum.

By a curios coincidence there were ninety men present at the dinner given Friday night by the class of Columbia, '90, to their crew which defeated the Harvard Freshmen at New London last June.

Cornell has purchased of P. T. Barnum the skeleton of the dead elephant whose head was presented to the college directly after the fire. It is proposed to make a comparative study of this skeleton with the bones of an extinct mastodon which were recently found in Western New York State.

At the last meeting of the Amherst Senate, President Seelye reported that the faculty had agreed with the senate in interpreting the constitution to include under its jurisdiction all undergraduates, whether in regular standing or not. The senate voted to recommend to the college that some fair athletic event be substituted for the class rushes, which have always been attended with more or less serious accidents.