There will be no regular mid-year examination in German 9.

Prof. Cooke has been ill for several days.

The Easter recess begins April 4th and lasts one week.

Tuesday's Yale News contained an article on Harvard athletics.

A toboggan slide has been erected on the Union Grounds in Boston.

The candidates for the '90 tug-of-war team began work on Thursday.

Rev. James Freeman Clarke, D. D., will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel to-morrow evening.

Professor F. G. Peabody entertained the freshmen at his residence on Kirkland street Thursday evening.

"Julius Caesar" is the subject of the Stoddard lecture this afternoon in Music Hall.

Harmar, Yale, '90, has entered in the mile and the half-mile runs at the U. of P. games on Jan. 23.

Professor Harris will give half the instruction in N. H. 1 after the mid-year examinations.

There is an advance of five per cent. in college attendance in the United States this year.

The Foot-ball Association, of England, will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its formation, next season.

C. H. Taylor, Jr., '90, has resigned his position as manager of the lacrosse team.

Several enthusiastic yachtsmen about college are about to petition the faculty for a course in navigation.

The Advocate will be out to-day.

The Yale News protests in the name of the alumni to the fence being removed in order for the new building.

The Glee Club sang last evening at Quincy at the invitation of the Quincy Tennis Club, and the Pierian Sodality played at West Medford.

The old, old story: "Fred Plaisted, the professional oarsman, is reported to have been engaged to coach the Harvard crew."- Yale News.

The Rev. G. H. Parker, a recent graduate of Harvard, is lecturing before the Agassiz Society of Boston upon "Evolution from a Theological Standpoint."

At a meeting of the Christian Brethren, held Thursday evening, the following officers were elected: President, J. H. Ropes, '89; secretary, H. R. Miles, '88; treasurer, C. H. Moore, '89; librarian, A. E. Beckwith, '91.

The following men have been elected officers of the Boylston Chemical Club: G. White, president; T. W. Richards, vice-president; C. F. Kahnweiler, secretary; H. Pulsford, treasurer; W. G. Forsyth, librarian.

The collection of meteorites owned by the university is worth, at catalogue prices, a million and a half dollars. It may be compared very favorably with any other similar collection in the world.

At the first of the three matinees Monday next at 2 o'clock Josef Hofmann will play the following pieces: One of Becethoven's concert's; Mendelssohn's Rondo Capricioso; three original compositions; an improvisation, and a Nocturne by Chopin.

Coxe, '87, Yale's famous hammer and shot thrower, will return to Yale in March, taking a course in chemistry in Sheffield Scientific School. The Yale News says he will simply coach the Mott Haven candidates for shot and hammer putting.

The New Haven Union is authority for the statement that Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania contemplate withdrawal from the Inter-collegiate Foot-ball League and the formation of a new league consisting of Wesleyan, Pennsylvania, Williams, Amherst and Lehigh.