Two weeks have nearly passed since our promenade season, and the university has become thoroughly settled in its winter's work, tiresome and monotonous to most of us. The junior promenade and its attendant festivities were all pronounced very successful. Three successive evenings of gaycties, the Glee Club concert, the promenade itself, and the class germans, interspaced with receptions in the daytime, all united, we trust, to give a most enjoyable time to our numerous visitors, as they certainly did to ourselves. Since then the various athletic organizations have considerably increased the severity of their training. The University Crew, owing to the mildness of the weather, have been able to row in the harbor very frequently during the past week, but owing to this cold snap they will again have to be content with their regular gymnasium work. Long runs and walks continue to be the characteristic feature of the work of the men training for the Mott Haven team, and the candidates for the nine are necessarily still limited to their work in the cage. Great preparations are being made for the winter games, which will occur in about two weeks. Dr. W. G. Anderson, the president of the Brooklyn Normal School for Physical Training, has been secured as instructor for all who will enter the games. Dr. Anderson is a young man, a college graduate, and has charge of the physical instruction in a large number of schools in New York and vicinity. Owing to his other engagements he will be able to be in New Haven only three times a week, but he is such a thorough and skilful instructor that the men are making rapid progress under his directions. An unusually large number of men are in training for the games, and owing to the competent instruction they will receive, the prospects for a good winter meeting are better than those of any previous year.

The annual convention of the Intercollegiate Y. M. C. A., which is to be held here the last part of this week, bids fair to be the largest ever held One hundred and fifty delegates will surely be present, representing over twenty-five colleges, and there is every prospect of this number being largely increased. The list of colleges sending delegates includes nearly all those of the New England and Middle States and two of Canada. The exercises of the convention will all be held in the new college Y. M. C. A. building, Dwight Hall, which is very admirably adapted for that purpose. Many prominent speakers have promised to be present, and the committee in charge of the arrangements have prepared a very interesting programme for the three days of the convention, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This programme includes discussions on interesting and appropriate subjects connected with college religious work by the delegates themselves, and addresses by prominent divines and recent college graduates, who are still interested in this work.

The Yale alumni are to give a complimentary dinner to Captain Robert J. Cook, '76, Yale's most famous oarsman, on February 19, as an expression of their appreciation of his unselfish devotion and valuable service so generously given to the interests of boating at our university. The letter of invitation is signed by fifty-one graduates, among whom are Henry E. Howland '54; Alexander H. Stevens, '54; Mason Young, '60; George A. Adee, '67; Allen W. Evarts, '69; Arthur M. Dodge, '74; Walter C. Camp, '80.