There will be an important meeting of the CRIMSON board today at 1.30.

Trinity will not play football with Yale this year.

President Eliot has left Cambridge for a week.

Of the 7000 students at the University of Berlin 178 are Americans.

The Yale tug-of-war team has begun training. The position of anchor is still vacant.

C. DeV. Musaus, '88, late of the Law School, has gone to Liverpool for the purpose of entering business.

The invitations to the Robert Hall parties are out. The patronesses are Mrs. Dexter and Mrs. Maynadier.

A hare and hounds club has been formed at Princeton, and will hold weekly runs.

There 365 colleges in the United States, 4,836 instructors, and 65,728 students.

DePauw University, Indiana, has received a bequest which will amount to two million dollars.

Princeton defeated the Druid lacrosse team last Wednesday by a score of 5 goals to nothing.

The college and town democratic clubs at Princeton have challenged the college and town republican clubs to a joint tariff debate.

At the fall meeting of the Princeton athletic association on Saturday, Roddy, '91, ran half a mile in 2m. 5 1-2s., breaking the college record by 1 1-2s.

A university drum corps has been organized at Yale and will assist both the democratic and republican clubs in the university this fall.

The torchlight batallion of the Institute of Technology is to receive its uniforms free of charge from the Massachusetts Republican committee.

Cornell expects to place an excellent eight on the water this year, and is very anxious to row Columbia and the university of Pennsylvania.

The Yale bicycle club is in a fiourishing condition and has adeed several new members this year. The first run will be held next Saturday.

A picked eleven from the Episcopal Divinity School of Cambridge played the Groton school eleven Saturday at Groton. The Groton eleven won by a score of 18 to 0.

The sophomores of Lehigh have changed their class colors to orange and black, so that they may have a distinctive color for the tassel of their mortar-boards.

The Amherst athletic association held a meeting on Saturday, at which the college record for putting the shot was broken by Houghton, '90, who covered 33ft. 4in. The class of ninety leads in the number of prizes won.

The athletic association of Yale has offered a twenty-five dollar gold medal to that member of the university who shall gain the greatest number of points during the year in all amateur atlhetic games. A first prize will count five points, second prize three, and third prize one.

The football season has begun, and we shall have a steady list of casualties from now on. Princeton and Yale seem to have pretty well matched teams, and the championship will probably lie between them. What is the matter with the Harvard men? It is so long since they won anything except tennis games that the graduates are absolutely disheatened.-N. Y. Star.