Stuart of last year's Amherst nin has signed with the Washingtons.

The new Harvard club-house in New York will be opened on the first of May.

Mr. A. D. Hodges, '89, has been elected assistant secretary of the Glee Club.

The alumni of Colby College held a reunion at the Revere House last Thursday.

The Inter-collegiate Lacrosse and the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association hold conventions in New York to-day.

The University of Michigan has 1,535 students, the second largest number of any American institution of learning.

Lafayette has abandoned the attempt to form a new base-ball league, on account of a lack of interest in the project.

At the banquet given by the Yale men in honor of Robert J. Cook on Saturday $3000 was subscribed towards a new gymnasium for Yale.

Joseph Cook will address the University under the auspices of the Total Abstinence League next Wednesday evening in Sanders Theatre. Mr. Cook is a graduate of Harvard of the class of '65.

The largest library in the world is the National Library of France. It was founded by Louis XIV., and now contains 1,400,000 books, 300,000 pamphlets, 175,000 manuscripts, 300,000 maps and charts, and 150,000 coins and medals. In addition to the above, 1,300,000 engravings and 100,000 portraits.

Mr. Henry Dixon Jones has been secured for a series of lectures and readings to be given at the Theological Seminary of Virginia, where Mr. Jones is very popular, during the month of March.

The railroad strike seems to have died a natural death after a brief struggle. But few strikers are now seen lounging around the Square, as most of the men have found employment elsewhere.

A contrivance for starting a tug-of-war has been placed in the gymnasium to be tested. It consists of a flat board, across which two upright parallel boards are fixed, about six inches apart; the rope lies across the opening between these boards at right angles, and is pressed down between them and held firm in its place by a lever, fastened at one end to the floor.

Many of the balls in the bowling alley have been broken of late, owing to the rough usage they have to undergo from fellows who enjoy bowling merely for the sake of seeing how swiftly they can send the ball.

A careful statistician reports that there are in American 1801 institutions devoted to higher education. Attending those are 163,570 male and 30,587 female students. In 1880, 154,375 of our 227,710 school teachers were women.

The sophomore and freshman tug-of-war teams are now hard at work. The candidates for positions on the '89 team tug every afternoon on the cleats in the basement of the gymnasium from 5 to 5.30 p.m., The freshmen start in just as soon as '89 gets through and pull for half an hour. The sophomore candidates for anchor are Perry and Pfeiffer, while the freshmen trying for the same position are Higginson, Sturgis and Chamberlain.

At the dinner of the Harvard Club in Chicago on Thursday evening, the speech of Prof. Lowell was the feature of the evening. The following extract will rejoice the hearts of Independents in politics: - "Party organization is no doubt a very convenient thing, but a great many people feel - and I feel very strongly with them - that when loyalty to party means disloyalty to country, and means what it seems to me is still worse - disloyalty to conscience - it is asking more than any good man or citizen should concede."