A new running track has been built in the gymnasium at Amherst.

The freshmen rowed in the tank yesterday afternoon for the first time.

Henceforth reserved books cannot be taken from the Library till after four o'clock.

One-fifth of the whole number of students at Amherst come from the State of New York.

Professor Cooke will give another illustrated lecture next Thursday, upon Pisa and Sienna.

The Boylston laboratories will be open for Chemistry 3 until a few days before the examination.

The university crew have been rowing on the river the past two days. The seniors and sophomores were on the water yesterday.

The middle class of the Phillips Exeter Academy have voted to hold a german during the latter part of the present term.

About seventy-five graduates of Amherst College met recently and organized a Connecticut Valley Alumni Association.

There will be thirteen events in the coming winter meeting held by the students of Exeter Academy, among which are heavy and middle-weight sparring.

William Cranston Lawton, of Cambridge, is arranging for several courses of readings from Greek authors during the present winter and spring. Besides his course of six readings, which includes an original metrical version of three dramas of Euripides, he is preparing a similar course from AEschylus.

The Fencing Club has engaged Allen Low, formerly connected with the Montreal Athletic Club and with the Toronto Fencing Club, as instructor in fencing. The French method will be used entirely. Mr. Low will commence on Monday, and will be at the club rooms on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from two to six.

The Princeton nine began work last week in the gymnasium. The candidates are not very numerous, but the material, on the whole, is very promising. In Mercer Hall a substitute has been found for the old cage in the gymnasium. At a trifling expense it has been turned into a first-class handball court. It affords a good place for battery practice.

A letter has been received by the executive committee of the International Copyright Association reporting that the House of Rpresentatives has been well canvassed, and that there appears to be a good majority in favor of passing the international copyright bill. Every Massachusetts member is reported for the bill, which will undoubtedly be passed if it is possible to bring the measure to a vote.

The senior class of the University of Toronto is endeavoring to form an organization which shall exist after graduation, an entirely new departure for this university. Circulars have been sent to the secretaries of the senior classes of the more prominent colleges in the United States. The answer sent by Mr. Ropes, secretary of '89, was printed in the last issue of their college paper, the Varsity.