Baseball games Saturday: Yale, 8; Wilkesbarre, 2; Worcester, 8; Amherst, 2.

Sunday's Boston Herald had an article on the lacrosse team.

On account of the bad weather, the freshman nine did not go to Andover Saturday.

Up to the present time Harvard leads in gifts received for the year 1887-8. DePauw is second, Syracuse third.

A nine has been organized by the Law School men. Grinstead, '87, is captain.

The "Henrietta" at the Hollis Street Theatre drew very large audiences last week. It will remain in Boston three weeks longer.

Mr. Goddard, of the class of '81, Harvard, has been appointed to represent American on the Egyptian Archxological Exploring expedition.

The long-talked of bicycle road race has been indefinitely postponed, as the rainy weather of the past two weeks has made training impossible.

A proposition to forbid the production of Hasty Pudding theatricals outside of Cambridge was rejected by the faculty.

Cupples and Hurd will issue next Saturday, Matthew Arnold's first and last impressions of America, consisting of his celebrated "A Word about America," "A Few More Words," and his very recent article, "Civilization in the United States."

President Barnard of Columbia has improved very much in health during his stay in the South and will soon resume his regular duties.

Finlay, '91, is now rowing in the freshman crew, but will go back to the 'Varsity after the class races. Schroll, '89, has begun rowing in the 'Varsity boat.

A Montreal base-ball enthusiast proposes to train a team of Indian lacrosse players in base-ball and to take them on a tour through the states.

Theme XII. will be due on May 15. The choice of subject and the manner of treatment is left to the writer. Notice of the subject chosen need not be given.

The old Barrett gymnasium at Amherst, which has not been used since the new gymnasium was built, will soon be fitted up for a geological and mineralogical cabinet.

Mr. Richard Hochdorfer will return to Germany this summer and will cease to be connected with the university. Mr. E. H. Babbitt, who has been assisting Dr. Francke in some of his courses this year, will also go to Europe for the purpose of study.

Mr. Henry Irving has endowed a lectureship in the School of Expression, 15 1-2 Beacon, St., Boston, and others are promised. A summer session will be held, opening July 9, for college students, teachers, public speakers, and others.

The University of Tennessee has elected Professor F. L. Scribner of the agricultural department, Washington, to fill its chair of botany and horticulture; Professor H. E. Summers of Cornell University to the chair of zoology and entomology, and Professor William E. Stone of Gottingen to be chemist at the Tennessee experimental station. All have accepted.

The April number of the Quarterly Journal of Economics will contain the reply of President F. A. Walker to Professor McVane's criticisms on his "Theory of Business Profits"; an article on the "Philadelphia Ground Rent System," which has done so much to make that city a "city of homes," and a study of "United States Tariff History from 1830 to 1860," by Professor Taussig.