The college graduates' nine, which is coming east in the spring, has elected Packard, University of Michigan, president; Parker, Dartmouth, vice-president, and Tilden of Harvard, treasurer.

The tank of hot coffee which is furnished free to Cambridge railroad men in Miss Jones's store is not supplied by the company, but by subscriptions from Cambridge people.

Harmay, Yale '90, and Barnes, of Columbia, acted as pacemakers for Cunneff, the Irish champion, in his exhibition mile-run at the Manhattan games last Saturday night.

Another of Prof. N. S. Shaler's notable articles on the surface of the earth will appear in Scribner's Magazine for February, under the title of "Volcanoes." Among the illustrations will be a number of views of the great eruption in the Sandwich Islands.

The fourth symphony concert in Sander's Theatre will take place on Thursday evening. Mr. C. M. Loeffler will be the soloist and following is the programme to be presented: Academic overture, Brahms; symphonie espagnole, Lalo; Scherzo, from Midsummer Night's Dream, Mendelssohn; Im Walde Symphony, Raff.