Freshmen are using Prof. Cooke's new work on chemistry.

Diplomas are to be given to graduates at Phillips Exeter in the future.

The junior rank list at Yale numbers 84 men.

The late Professor Sibley's "Harvard Graduates" is out of print, and now commands a high price.

The services at the St. John's Memorial Chapel are designed especially for the members of the University.

Exeter will hold her first winter athletic meeting in the gymnasium the latter part of this term.

There was good skating yesterday on Fresh Pond, and many college men enjoyed it.

London, P. A. A., '88, the present editor-in-chief of the Phillipian, will enter Harvard '92.

Prof. Cohn has completed his course of readings of French dramatic literature which he has been delivering in Boston.

Nearly $500 was realized by the first performance of the Columbia College Dramatic Club in aid of the 'Varsity crew.

The trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy have voted to begin work on a new physical and chemical laboratory in the spring.

The prizes which Mr. Turner offered at Princeton last year for excellence in gymnastics have been awarded as follows: 1st prize, White, '88; 2d prize, Terlume, '89; 3rd prize, Gesner, '89.

Dr. Rolfe, whose editions of Shakes peare's works are so much used in American colleges, is delivering a course of Saturday moring lectures on Shakespeare's works at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Mr. William Cranston Lawton, '73, will repeat his six readings from Euripides at the Hawthorne Rooms. The course includes original translations in metrical form of the Alkestis, the Medeia, and the Hippolytos.

The Johns Hopkins University now requires all undergraduate students to pass an examination in gymnastics before obtaining a degree. Vaulting, jumping and simple exercises on the parallel bar, horizontal bar and ladder are required. The maximum mark is 36, of which 20 is necessary in order to pass.

The following officers of the Boylston Chemical Club for the ensuing half-year were elected last night: G. R. White, gr., president; T. W. Richards, gr., vice-president; H. A. Pulsford, '88, treasurer; C. F. Kahnweiler, '88, secretary; W. G. Forsyth, '88, librarian. T. W. Richards, C. F. Kanhweiler and H. B. Gibson, '88, executive committee.

There are to be eight Natural Science lectures in Association Hall, Boston, on consecutive Wednesday evenings, beginning to-night. The lectures, illustrated by the stereopticon, will be delivered in aid of the Marine Biological Laboratory by distinguished scientific men, among whom are Professors Goodale and Putnam, of Harvard, and Dr. Bowditch, of the Medical School. The lecture to-night will be on "Mountain Sculpture," by Prof. Wm. H. Niles.