The Harvard Law School has one graduate in the New York Legislature.

On February 14, in Northampton, will occur the marriage of E. H. Ferry, '86, and Miss Annie O. Parsons.

There are two freshman crews at Columbia. The permanent captain has not yet been elected but Witherspoon is acting as captain of the crew from the School of Mines and E. C. Smith of the crew from the School of Arts.

Ginn and Co. have just issued a new edition of Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar revised by Mr. George L. Kittredge, former professor of Latin at Phillips Exeter Academy. Mr. Kittredge is at present connected with the English department of Harvard, and is one of the foremost scholars of the country.- Ex.

Four men from the Albany (N. Y.) Academy will enter Harvard next year.

The Yale junior promenade and the sophomore German were both great successes.

The following are candidates for the position of coxswain of the freshman crew: Sanders, 120; Gould, 106; Macy, 101; Amory, 110.

At a meeting of the Athletic Association held yesterday afternoon it was voted to add a bantam weight contest to the list of sparring events at the winter meetings. Bell, '91, was also voted a cup for breaking the Harvard record in the hurdle race.

On Tuesday night the alumni of Union College living at Albany, N. Y., held a largely-attended banquet and afterwards formed an alumni association. Union College has been growing rapidly under the administration of the new president, and in a few years will probably regain the position which a college of almost a century's growth should have.

The Academy of Syracuse, New York. has offered a prize of fifty dollars for an essay on the subject of "Teaching English in Secondary Schools." Any one is allowed to compete for the prize, which is to be awarded not so much upon literary excellence as upon the practicability of the ideas which are presented for the teaching of English in preparatory and public schools.

Many improvements have recently been made in the rowing tank at Yale. The old barge, which has been used in the tank for the last two years, became unfit for service, and, as a substitute, a long box, properly weighted with lead, has been constructed, containing the slides and appurtenances of a shell. All the corners in the tank have been rounded so that the water is now forced to move as in the Harvard tank-in two currents, one on each side of the shell.