Vespers this afternoon at 5 o'clock.

Mr. John Fiske began on Tuesday a course of lectures on American History at the University of Penn.

The lecture this evening in Sanders Theatre on "Modern Steel Bridges" promises to be very interesting.

The Princeton Base-Ball Association is having difficulty in collecting the money subscribed for the cage.

The Epoch, an interesting New York weekly, has been put upon the list of CRIMSON exchanges.

It is said that Prof. Laghlin will leave college after the mid-years in order to go into business in New York City.

The Yale Athletic Association will enter a team for the Manhattan games which take place on Jan. 28 in New York.

The Hofmann boy will make his first appearance as a conductor in New York on Saturday night, when he will direct the performance of his "Polonaise Americaine," his first essay at orchestral writing.

Mr. Barrett Wendell's comedy, "The Pilgrim Sons," will be played on the evenings of January 20 and 21 by the Footlight Club at Jamaica Plain.

The Mass. Inst. of Technology Athletic Association will hold its next meeting in the small hall of the Mechanics' Far Building.

The New York Clipper Annual for 1888 has appeared. It contains a record of all sporting, musical and theatrical events that have taken place during 1887.

Part of the decorations at the armory in New Haven, where the Yale junior promenade was held, consisted of two eight-oared shells. The Mott Haven cup was also present.

By an alteration in the Yale rowing tank, the water which is forced towards the stern by the motion of the oars returns in a united current under the boat.

The first observations have been taken through the Lick telescope and were very satisfactory. The eight rings of Saturn were clearly defined and a new star was discovered in Orion.

Somebody has figured out that the female lawyers of the United States number 45. Illinois has the greatest number-seven. Massachusetts has but one.

Mr. Ivan Panin, whose lectures on Russia were so much enjoyed in the early part of the winter, is to give another course on the six Tuesday afternoons beginning Feb. 7, at the Hawthorne rooms.

The candidates for the Yale Mott Haven team are divided into four squads under separate leaders: long distance runners, short distance runners, jumpers and shot and hammer throwers.

The famous sloop yacht "Priscilla" has been sold to Mr. A. Cary Smith, her designer, and will be transformed into a schooner. She will be in the same class as the Burgess schooner "Sachem."

A young Siamese, who is a students at Williams and who proposes to return to his country as a missionary, said recently at a meeting in New York. "Buddhism is a religion of morality, but I can say from experience that Christianity has all the morality of Buddhism, and more."