Herbert Bates, '90, has been elected an editor of the Monthly.

Dr. Hart will lecture to none of his courses until Thursday of this week.

Columbia plays Williams in Williamstown today.

There will be a Williams-Amherst freshman ball game this year.

There are ten Harvard graduates among the members of Beck Post, G. A. R., in Cambridge.

The last Boston Apollo Club concerts will be on Wednesday evening of this week and Monday evening of next.

White, Smith and Co., of Boston, have just published a song-the words by J. D. Barry, '88, and the music by L. R. Lewis, Gr.

The class of '86, Phillip Andover Academy, will have a reunion at Young's Hotel, Boston, on Friday, May 18.

President Cheney, of Bates College, has raised $98,000 of the $130,000 necessary for the new astronomical observatory.

The new shoes for the nine are made of soft black kid, laced low on the foot, and are modelled on those worn in the League and Association.

Bronson Howard recently delivered at Ann Arbor the lecture which he gave here two years ago, on "The Autobiography of a Play." But six students from the University of Michigan were present.

The '89 Columbiad has a cut of Laocoon and the snake. Laocoon is Columbia, the two sons are Harvard and Princeton, and the snake is Yale. This is an unusual display of wit for the Columbia.

The Cambridge Y. M. C. A. baseball team of last year, reorganized under the name of the AEtnas, will play the freshman team on Saturday of this week.

Yesterday's Herald contained an interview with Colonel Bancroft on the origin of the so-called Bancroft stroke and its similarity to the stroke rowed this year.

There will be a lecture by Henry George at Tremont Temple, Boston, on Saturday evening, April 28. The subject will be, "Why the interests of workingmen demand the abolition of both Protective and Revenue Tariffs."

Before the game with Harvard on Saturday, the Cornell Sun spoke as follows in regard to the Trinity nine:- "Welch of the New York league ball team was retained this spring as instructor in baseball by Trinity College, Conn. The result is that the Trinity nine are playing great ball this year. They have already defeated Lafayette and the Univ. of Pennsylvania."

The Columbia College Chess Club has written to Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale, in regard to forming an Intercollegiate Chess Club. It is proposed that each college send delegates to New York on May 25th. Inasmuch as the inter-collegiate games take place the next day, May 26th, a large number of collegians will undoubtedly be present in New York at that time.