There was a cut yesterday in History 17.

There were no lectures in History 12 and 13 yesterday.

The long theses in History 5 will be due immediately after the spring recess.

There will be no more lectures in History 5 until after the spring vacation.

Ninety new books have lately been added to the Dwight Hall library at Yale.

Prof. Bocher is to contribute an article to the next number of the "Monthly."

Mr. C. B. Barnes Jr., '90, has been elected a director of the Harvard Shooting Club.

A party of Yale '89 men intend to cruise along the New England coast from New York to Bar Harbor.

It is said that Columbia has a very fine pitcher, but no one has been found, as yet, who can hold him.

The next issue of the Philadelphian will contain an article by Canon Farrar which has never yet been in print.

Owing to the indisposition of Rev. Dr. Gordon, Rev. F. G. Peabody will conduct morning services for the next few days.

Keefe, of the New Yorks, prophesies that Van Wormer, of Williams, will become one of the most prominent pitchers of either college league. - Yale News.

The Delphic Literary Society, Swarthmore, gave an operetta in two acts called "The Bohn of Contention," recently.

It is said that the Columbia Freshman Crew is much lighter this year than usual, but that the men are exceedingly muscular.

There is an interesting letter entitled "Jefferson Davis and Repudiation," by Mr. A. T. Perkins, '87, in the last number of the "Nation."

Any one who received an imperfect copy of the CRIMSON yesterday morning can obtain a perfect copy by applying at Leavitt amp; Pierce's.

The date of the senior ball of the Institute of Technology has been fixed as April 22, the first date decided on, the 15th, interfering with the kirmess.

The Amherst Alumni of New York are discussing the advisability of establishing a professorship in Amherst, in honor of the late Henry Ward Beecher.

The proceeds of the concert given under the auspices of the Classical Club for the benefit of the American School at Athens, amount to seven hundred and eighteen dollars.

Evelyn College for young women, which is to be under the direction of Princeton professors, is to be opened soon. Dr. McCosh will be president, and his two daughters will act as principals. - Ex.

A large crowd gathered at the Polo Grounds, Saturday, to witness the opening game of the season between the New Yorks and Columbia College Nine. The teams, however, failed to put in an appearance.

The freshman crews are composed of the following men: First crew; Amory, stroke; Hutchinson, Herrick, Sanford, Felton, Slocum, Matthews, anchor. Second crew; Crowninshield, stroke: Lothrop, Darling, Tilton, Richmond, Woods, Cabot, Hire; coxswain, Fales.

The senior class at Columbia has decided to place as a memorial an open fire-place costing about $500, in the west wall of Phoenix Collection Hall of Columbia College directly under the portrait of President Barnard. The fire place will bear the inscription "Fugit Irreparabile Tempus," and the date 1887. - Ex.