Last Saturday evening's Record had a long article on Harvard athletics.

Dr. Hale will conduct prayers until Feb. 18.

The first winter meeting will be on Saturday, March 10.

There are three hundred and twenty students at Exeter this year.

In Sunday's Herald was a long account of base-ball, its history and development.

A course of emergency lectures is being given to the Cambridge policemen by Dr. Taylor of North Avenue.

The annual reunion of the Dartmouth Alumni Association takes place to-day at Washington.

President Eliot goes to Chicago this week and Mr. Bolles, will take a few days vacation.

The freshmen and sophomores at the U. of P. had their annual "Bowl Fight" last Wednesday.

The number of candidates for the Yale freshman crew has been reduced to sixteen.

Yale is having trouble in collecting the subscriptions for the 'Varsity crew trophy.

One hundred and ninety-five of the 407 members of Congress have had a college education.

The Russian Government has determined to remove the heads of departments obnoxious to the students in the recent University troubles.

Professor Charles Linden, a noted ornithologist, who made valuable collections of birds for the Harvard Museum, died last Friday.

The Rev. Dr. Hale spoke in Divinity Hall to a small party of students, Friday evening, on the subject "Ten times one is ten clubs."

The students of the U. of Michigan are making vigorous efforts to raise a fund of $10,000 to be used for the establishment of a gymnasium.

In the trial contest in the gymnasium, Saturday afternoon, Pennypacker won in putting the shot with a put of 35 feet 6 inches.

The freshman base-ball team at Amherst is working very hard, and the prospects are bright for a nine better than any freshman nine that Amherst has ever had.

Harvard professors still have the monopoly of Scribner's Magazine. In the February number are contributions from Prof. James, Mr. Wendell and Prof. Shaler, the last including translations of some of Pliny's letters by ex-Prof. Crosswell.- Cambridge Tribune.

About 3 a. m. Saturday the inmates of Divinity Hall were awakened by the cry of "fire." The fire proved to be in the house in the rear of the hall, which is mostly occupied by students. The fire was confined to the lower story and soon extinguished.

The proposition to erect a statue of Milton at Harvard, which is made by a correspondent of the Boston Post, is all very fine in its way and it would be an addition to the objects of interest which abound here. It would, however, be better for people to erect statues of Harvard's own great men before seeking to make one of Milton.- Cambridge Tribune.