There will be an important meeting of the CRIMSON board to-day at 1.30.

The Glee Club has given up the idea of making a trip to the West in the Easter holidays.

Mr. Ross, of Montreal, has given $400,000 for the purpose of founding a college in that city for the higher education of women.

Professor Alexander Agassiz of Harvard University has just received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Cambridge.

Dr. Leidy of the University of Pennsylvania estimates a diminution of the weight in the brain of one ounce in every ten years of life after fifty years.

A Lubeck merchant has bequeathd 300,000 marks to the University of Jena, toward the founding of a Darwinian professorship; Prof. Haeckel, the world-renowned scientist, has the administration of the bequest in his charge. - Tokio Independent.

The annual convention of the Psi Upsilon college fraternity closed Friday evening with a banquet at the Metropolitan Opera House, attended by over 400 members of the fraternity. Hon. Charles Dudley Warner presided. Addresses were made by Rev. Dr. R. I. MacArthur, Joseph H. Choate (representing the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity), Chauncey M. Depew and President Charles K. Adams and ex-President Andrew D. White of Cornell. The convention was attended by delegates from each of the eighteen colleges in which the fraternity has chapters.

Gen. Francis A. Walker, president of the Institute of Technology, has just published a "History of the Army of the Potomac."

Prof. Lyon will give four illustrated public lectures in the Upper Boylston as follows: March 8, Sardanapalus; March 15, Cyrus; March 22, Babylonian and Hebrew psalmody; March 29, Babylonian private life.

Prof. Richards is earnestly working for the new Yale gymnasium. He has petitioned the building committee of the corporation for the lot at the corner of High and Elm streets, where the base-ball cage now stands, on which to put the building, which will be the largest and best equipped gymnasium in the country.

The freshmen of the Institute of Technology met Thursday and elected Mr. Gary Calkins a member of the class executive committee, in place of Mr. Morse, resigned; Messrs. E. M. Beals, E. B. Stearns, H. Wood, J. L. Batchelder, Jr., and W. R. Green, a base-ball committee. The election of '90's representative on the senior ball was deferred.

Prof. Shaler, in his paper in the March "Scribner," says at the time of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 "John Winthrop, then professor of physics and astronomy in Harvard College, in 1755 one of the few eminent American men of science of the eighteenth century, states that the bricks from the chimney of his house, in Cambridge, the top of which was thirty-two feet from the ground, were thrown to a point thirty feet from the base of the structure."

The editorial board of the Law Review which is to be published by the students of the Law School, will consist of J. H. Beale, Jr., Bertram Ellis, W. A. Hayes, Jr., J. W. Mack, J. J. McKelvey, J. W. Morss, J. H. Wigmore, and A. Winkler, of the third year; B. G. Davis, M. C. Hobbs, B. H. Lee and H. M. Williams, of the second year, and J. M. Merriam and George R. Nutter of the first year. Mr. McKelvey will be editor-in-chief and Mr. Mack business manager. The substantial encouragement in the shape of subscriptions met with both among the students and the alumni ensures the establishment of the Review and the issue of an April number. Subscriptions, $2.50 per year, may be sent to the Harvard Law Review, Cambridge, Mass.