Entrance examinations for Columbia begin today (June 4).

Reserved seats for Yale game, June 9, now ready at Leavitt and Peirce's.

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

Phillips Academy will take an active part in Exeter's 250th anniversary.

Clarkson, the Boston pitcher, was a spectator at the game on Holmes Field, Saturday.

Grant Memorial University of Athens, Tenn., has conferred the degree of doctor of laws on Senator Leland Stanford.

The annual examinations and exercises of the West Point Military Academy are now in progress.

Rev. Lyman Abbott, D. D., brother of Rev. Edward Abbott of Cambridge, has accepted the permanent pastorate of Plymouth Church, as the successor of Henry Ward Beecher.

Professor John K. Paine achieved a great success at the recent Cincinnati May festival in the production of his new cantata, "A Song of Promise." Theodore Thomas says concerning this composition: "There is no living composer who can produce such a work, not even Rubenstein."

There is an excellent editorial on "Harvard Discipline" in the Cambridge Tribune of this week, and the Sunday Herald devotes a half column in speaking editorially of the chapel attendance.

The May meeting of the Harvard Odontological Society took place recently at Young's, seventeen members being present, Dr. H. Merriam in the chair. Dr. J. G. Werner read a paper on "Manners, Methods and Ways."

William Winthrop Allen of Medfield is the oldest living graduate of Harvard College, as has been ascertained since the death recently of Dr. William Goddard of the class of 1815. Mr. Allen was born at Medfield in 1794, and his only surviving classmates in the class of 1817 are George Bancroft, who was born in Worcester, October 6, 1800, and Samuel Sewall, the well-known lawyer, who was born Nov. 9, 1799.

Men on the 'varsity crew are now rowing as follows: Stroke, Alexander, L. S.; 7, Finlay, '91; 6, Tilton, '90; 5, Davis, '89; 4, Schroll, L. S.; 3, Markoe, '89; 2, Hartridge, '90; bow, Storrow, '89. Substitutes-Carpenter, '88; Hutchinson, '90; Gorham, L. S., and Trafford, '89; and the '91 men are rowing in the following positions: Stroke, Cumnock; 7, Hammond; 6, Longworth; 5, Longstreth; 4, Perkins; 3 Randol; 2, Winthrop; bow, Woodworth.

The corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announces the discontinuance of its school of mechanic arts, by the notice inserted in the daily papers to the effect that "no students will hereafter be received as candidates for the certificates of the high or preparatory school known as 'the School of Mechanic Arts' in this institute." General F. A. Walker says the school never had an endowment, and had been able to exist only by reason of the high rates of tuition.

Dr. Martin B. Anderson, for more than thirty years president of the University of Rochester, has recently resigned, and the appointment of his successor is awaited with great interest. Among the candidates are Rev. David L. Hill, LL. D., president of Bicknell University, Lewisburg, Penn., and Professor E. H. Johnson, D. D., of Crozier Theological Seminary, Chester, Penn. Dr. Hill is one of the youngest college presidents in the country, but has written text books on rhetoric, logic and psychology.