Another examination in Philosophy 2 will occur next Monday.
This year's Princeton catalogue has just been issued and gives the total number of students as 603.
A Yale senior has recently won a wager by eating fourteen quail on fourteen successive days.
According to the News, a tambourine and snare drum have been added to the Yale orchestra.
The Glee Club are rehearsing a "vacation" song composed by a student of Music 3.
Hector Cowan, '88 of Princeton is without an equal among American foot-ball players.- Phila. Press.
Mr. W. H. Corbin, '89, of Hartford, Conn., centre rush of the Yale eleven, has been elected captain for the ensuing year.
The Rev. T. T. Munger, D. D., of New Haven, will occupy the college pulpit to-morrow evening.
President Brock, of Oxford, now of King's University, in Nova Scotia, will visit Boston this month.
The Christmas numbers of the English illustrated papers have arrived and are full of colored pictures and interesting reading matter.
There is a rumor that H. R. A. Carey has given $25,000 for the erection of a building for the winter practice of the ball nine. It is to be hoped that this is true and not as mythical as the many similar rumors which were current last year.
Marland Cogswell Hobbs, '85, the winner of the Sumner prize for graduates, was a former president of the CRIMSON board.
The matter required to be read in Pol. Econ. 4, is to be gathered together and published in book form if the necessary number of subscribers can be obtained.
A challenge has been sent by the Harvard Cricket Association to Yale, but it is doubtful whether it will be accepted, as the latter college has no cricket club.
The section in freshman Greek have mastered Lysias and are now going to annihilate plato. In consequence, the instructors in the different sections have changed about.- Cambridge Tribune.
The candidates for the Amherst base-ball team have begun training under the direction of Mr. Storrs, the captain. Only practice in batting and battery work will be attempted until after the Christmas recess.
The following is the advice of the paper published by the Lawrenceville, N. J. School to the members of the foot-ball team: "Eating ice-cream and drinking soda water are especially to be avoided, in spite of the temptations which abound in the village, as they undoubtedly tend to make the wind short.
The last hare and hound run of the season took place yesterday afternoon. It was a fast hunt and was won by the hares, Dana and Cogswell, who started at 3.40 and arrived home at 4.25 after a long run through Longwood and around Chestnut Hill Reservoir. The straps broke which held Cogswell's scent bag in place and he did not run the whole course. The first hound in was Wells, 90, who arrived at 5.16.
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