It is said that Lafayette has never received a legacy.

The Inter-collegiate Base-ball convention will meet in March.

A Beethoven Society has been recently formed at Wellesley.

Professor Lanciani is lecturing at the University of Pennsylvania.

On Tuesday night of last week three new comets were discovered at Yale.

Lehigh has applied for admission to the Inter-collegiate Lacrosse Association.

The freshman class of Columbia has decided to raise $1,500 for the support of its class crew.

Smith, '87, has been elected president of the Amherst Base-ball Association for the ensuing year.

There has been established in Cincinnati a college for the exclusive education of women in Medicine.

President Gilman of Johns Hopkins University was formerly President of the University of California.

Sliding seats were first introduced into college boats by Walter Brown, coach of the Yale crew in '70.

Mr. Gardner S. Lamson, '77, the well known Boston basso will assist the chapel choir at the vesper service this afternoon,

A spectacled youth caused much amusement in the library yesterday afternoon by falling asleep and snoring tunefully over his musty volume.

There is a rumor afloat that the H. A. A. is about to take the flooding of Holmes Field in hand. It is to be hoped the report is well founded.

Invitations have been extended to the leading astronomers to spend a certain period in taking observations at the new Lick Observatory, California.

The CRIMSON is in receipt of a most interesting and instructive discussion of the source of the Mississippi River. The discussion is worthy the attention of all.

Mr. Lloyd McKim Garrison, '88, has resigned from the board of editors of the DAILY CRIMSON. He has been elected correspondent of the Inter-collegiate Press Association.

R. J. Cook, '76, Yale's celebrated oarsman, was made captain of the University crew in his freshman year, and was also elected president of the Rowing Association of American Colleges for the same year. - Yale News.

There will be prayer-meeting in the Y. M. C. A. rooms to-night at 6.30. All members of the university are invited. All members of the association are requested to be present as important business is to be brought up after the meeting.

An editorial calling for the works of Cardinal Newman in the English select was written under a misapprehension, as notice has been given that all the works of Newman which the college possesses have been placed on the new English shelves.

Lyons, '85, of Yale has made the longest throw and also the longest hit in the Inter-collegiate record. The distance of the throw was 385 feet 2 inches that of the hit was 450 feet from the home plate to the spot at which the ball fell.

Dr. W. G. Anderson has been engaged as athletic trainer at Yale for the winter games. He has entire charge of the physical training in the Adelphi Academy of Brooklyn and is president of the Brooklyn Normal School for physical training. Dr. Anderson can only be at Yale three times a week, on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.