The Advocate will be out to-day.

There is to be a co-operative society at Amherst.

Only four per cent. of the seniors at Yale take Latin and Greek electives.

The number of students at Lafayette College this year is two hundred and eighty-eight.

The University of Pennsylvania is counting on six first prizes at the Mott Haven games next May.

The Yale Prohibition Club has formed a quartette which will take part in their meetings.

For the winter term at the University of Leipsic, 3,288 students have matriculated.

The first of a series of class tug-of-war contests at Yale was held last evening.

Rev. Dr, Hale will conduct the services at Appleton Chapel to-morrow evening.

Josef Hofmann's public performances have been limited to four a week through the intervention of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

The appointments of the Yale Scientific School, 23 in number, were announced on Wednesday.

Among the people present at the funeral of Dr. Gray on Thursday, were Pres. Dwight and Profs. Marsh and Eaton, of Yale.

The Psi Upsilon Club will hold its first annual banquet in New York, at the Hotel Brunswick, on the evening of Feb. 9th.

The wire netting is being put up in Princeton's new base-ball cage, and as soon as this work is finished the cage will be ready for use.

The trustees of Dartmouth College have leased a large tract of woodland in the northern part of New Hampshire for $150,000.

The Harvard Musical Association banqueted at Young's on Wednesday in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the society.

The second biennial dinner of the Phillips Academy Alumni Association will be given at the Parker House, Feb. 15th.

The January number of the Yale Literary Magazine contains the article on "University Life," by Herbert Smith, '89, for which he received the Lit medal.

Frederick F. Thompson, of N. Y., has promised $25,000 to the Hopkins Memorial Fund at Williams on condition that the balance of $10,000 is raised.

The attempt of several of the students of the College at Pikesville, Tenn., to haze one of their numbers, resulted in the stabbing of one of the hazers.

The University for this week has been received and is full of interest for college men generally. It has a picture of Maria Mitchell, Ph. D., L. L. D., the celebrated professor of astronomy, at Vassar College.

Princeton experienced a small fire last Friday afternoon. Witherspoon Hall, one of the handsomest and most costly of the college buildings, took fire in the room of one of the students. It was soon under control, however, and the loss will not be over a few hundred dollars.