A chess club is to be formed at Cornell.

The Columbia Irishmen had their class dinner last Tuesday.

Professor Norton will not resume his lectures until Saturday.

Several flower beds are being laid out in different parts of the college grounds.

A large number of games have been arranged for the Yale Freshman Nine.

The candidates for the Williams Foot-Ball Team of next year have already begun practice.

Hyneman, one of the University of Pennsylvania crack pitchers, has never pitched a game in his life. - Ex.

In the games the Columbia and Yale nines have played with the professionals so far. Yale has made much better scores.

Several men in the senior class at Princeton are competing for the prizes offered by the American Protective Tariff League.

The triassic bumms who spent the vacation in Connecticut hunting for "rocks" have returned, reporting a very successful trip.

The nine showed up so well last week that we can predict that we have the best nine we have ever had, and it is the duty of every one of us to give it our heartiest support in every way. - Princetonian.

On Tuesday the Washingtons defeated the Yale nine by a score of ten to three. The Washington nine made fifteen base hits and Yale fifteen errors. The Yale battery was Heyworth and Kellogg.

The Columbia Spectator once more appears among our exchanges. The paper was involved in difficulties that almost caused it to suspend publication altogether. As the Spectator is the only student publication in Columbia College at present, it is fortunate that it has been able to live through its difficulties.

There is some talk of getting up a base-ball nine among the members of the Medical School. They certainly have a good battery to start with, in Nichols and Bremner of Yale. It would be a good thing for the 'Varsity nine if such a scheme were carried out. Practice games could be played with the nine after the fashion of the Yale consolidated nine.