The junior promenade at Yale will be held on January 17.

The next exercise in English 6 will be on Friday, Jan. 6, at 3 p.m.

Holden spent Christmas at his home in Cleveland. He is rapidly gaining strength.

Amherst has a toboggan club which has built a $200 chute on the hill beside the gymnasium.

Professor Child's has recovered his health during the recess and has resumed his English courses.

There was very good skating yesterday on Glacial is and Jamaica Pond and on the Charles river at Dedham.

A very interesting gymnastic exhibition was given at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium in Boston on Tuesday evening.

A team composed of amateur American cricketers sailed on Dec. 17 for the West Indies and are now playing a series of games there.

Boylston Hall will be closed on account of repairs until Monday, Jan. 9. There will be no lectures in any chemistry courses until Monday.

The pamphlet containing the required reading in Political Economy 4 has been issued and copies for subscribers and a few others may be obtained at the Co-operative store, price $3.

The Alumni Association of St. Mark's School at Southboro was held at Young's evening before last, with Hon. Edward Burnett in the chair. Fifty alumni were present. The dinner was very informal.

The schooner yacht Gitana owned by Commodore Weld of the Eastern Yacht Club has been fitted for sea in Boston and sailed yesterday for a cruise to the West Indies.

Charles Dickens gives a reading tonight in Tremont Temple, Boston. This is his last appearance here. He will read from Dombey and Son and Bob Sawyer's Party.

Crosby, who is trying for the pitcher's position on the Exeter team, is said to be a remarkably good man. He had a chance to join the Kansas City's which he refused.

The movement on foot to erect a statue of Heine in Dusseldorf is meeting with great opposition by the students of Bonn who call themselves "Christian Socialists."

Alexander Duncan, Yale, 1825, of London, Eng., has made Yale University a gift of $20,000, "to be used for its best interests, as the authorities of the University may determine."

Tyng who graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1879 after playing catcher on the nine for four years with Erust as pitcher, has signed with the Philadelphia club for next season. After his graduation Tyng pitched for some time for the Beacons and then joined the Bergen Point Athletic Club.

The Co-operative Society send a message in this morning to the sale of tickets for the National Opera Company's engagement at the Boston Theatre. The company remain two weeks, beginning Jan. 9 and will produce during the first week Rubenstein's "Nero," Goldmark's "Queen of Sheba," Gounod's "Faust," Wagner's "Tannhauser," and Verdi's "Aida."