The first of the assemblies in Heminway gymnasium occurs to-night.

Several men are already training for the winter meetings of the H. A. A.

Tobogganing has taken a new lease of life, thanks to the recent cold snap.

L. McK. Garrison, '88, will act as managing editor of the CRIMSON next week.

Ruddock, the well-known builder of racing shelis, has lately moved from Boston to Harlem.

Books are still left around on the tables in the library instead of being returned to the shelves.

The current number of the Nation contains a review of the last "Quarterly Journal of Economics."

Dr. Schooler, Dean of the Iowa Medical College, has been arrested for complicity in a grave robbery.

There has been a marked diminution in the numbers of candidates for the Mott Haven team since the examination commenced.

This is the time of the year for assemblies, junior promenades, senior parties and such like in all the eastern colleges.

The following have been elected officers of the Everett Athenaeum for the remainder of the year: C. L. Case, Pres.; J. W. Merrill, Jr., Vice-Pres.; C. H. Moore, Sec., and H. D. Sleeper, Treas.

The sophomore crew was unable to train again yesterday on account of the small number of candidates present. - Yale News.

The Amherst Freshmen have accepted the challenge of the Yale freshmen nine. The game will be played soon after the easter recess.

A man was refused premission to take his examination yesterday because he had failed to hand in his blue-book.

The annual concert by the Glee Club for the benefit of the navy fund, will be given in Chickering Hall, New York, on April 22. - Yale News.

Invitations are out from the gentlemen of the Cambridge Monday Evening Club for an assembly in Roberts Hall, on Tuesday Feb. 15.

Justin McCarthy, Gen. Wallace, Henry George, Carl Schurz, and James G. Blaine will address the students of the University of Wisconsin during spring.

To the Editor of the Globe:

I challenge in genuine faith Messrs. Sam Jones and Sam Small to a discussion on the tenets of the God of nature and nature's God, place and time selected by the two personages; admission $1, to be divided between the three speakers after all the expenses are paid. Please to answer.

The Great American Traveller. Boston, January 31.

One of the most aggravating incidents of the Mid-years has just reached our ears. A member of '89 who is something of a student, "ground" until late the night before for an examination which was to occur the next day. On his awakening the day of the exams, his surprise may be better imagined than described when he found that the time was just 12 o'clock. Of course he lost the examination.

The following is an extract of President Bartlett's speech: "Dartmouth College is not a university, and we do not want it one. We believe that one university in New England is enough, and there is, as James Russell Lowell said last fall, scarcely that. I do not think the so-called 'university' is practically such an institution. In my judgment, when young men choose their own branches, the gymnasium is the principal study."