E. C. Pfeiffer is now rowing with the sophomore crew.

The next lecture in History 20 (D) will be held on Friday of this week.

The faculty and students of Wesleyan University are still at swords points.

A new superintendent has been appointed to the Cambridge post-office.

The next essay of the Lippincott Prize series will be on "Social Life at Vassar."

Oliver Wendell Holmes will give readings from his unpublished writings in Boston very soon.

The Judiciary Committee of the Old Intercollegiate League is to meet in Boston, April 12.

Of the forty-four universities that have been founded in Germany only twenty-six now exist.

The question whether or not Andover shall put a crew on the water this year is being warmly discussed by the students of that school.

A meeting of present and past members of university teams was held Monday evening for the purpose of forming a social club; definite action will be taken on the subject at a meeting to be held soon.

Dustan, '89, will probably row on the sophomore crew when the weather groves warmer. He was one of the most promising candidates for the freshman crew last year, but was compelled to stop rowing on account of severe illness.

The annual field meeting of the American Association of Amateur Athletes will take place on the 17th of next September.

The Harvard record in the pole-vault made recently is 9 feet and 7 inches. The Princeton record made last June is 10 feet 6 inches.

President McCosh, of Princeton College, and George W. Cable, the well-known novelist, have recently joined the prohibition party. - Ex.

The crews at Yale are still rowing in barges. The University and probably the sophomore crew also, will begin to use shells in a short time.

A Yale sophomore celebrated the closing of the second term last week by fastening to the ceiling of one of the recitation rooms a placard bearing the legend, '89.

A very pleasant reception was held in the CRIMSON sanctum last evening in spite of the unpleasant weather. Many past and present editors were present.

Jarvis field is receiving attention and will be properly marked out for the use of the base-ball team. A new back-stop will be erected and a home-plate will be laid.

The Princeton Tug-of-War Team will compete in the games of the Twenty-Third Regiment, Brooklyn, April 2, and in the games of the Seventh Regiment, New York, April 9. - Princetonian.

There is said to be unusual activity in athletics at Rutgers this year. The trustees of the college have secured a fine large field on which a base-ball ground and cinder track is to be laid out.

The faculty of Columbia College have taken no definite action as yet on the petition of the sophomore and freshman classes, asking that studies be made optional in the junior year of the course.

Mr. William H. Mills, '80, and Robert Luce, '82, are soon to begin the publication of a new journal, "The Writer," a monthly magazine, to interest and help all literary workers. The subscription is to be but $1 a year, and the magazine bids fair to take a permanent place among the other monthlies of the present time.