Sixteen colleges in the United States are without presidents.

The shingle of the Institute of 1770 recently disappeared from its place on University.

The senior assembly this year will be held in the Pudding building on Monday, February 18.

Storrow, '85, Brooks, '87, and Storrow, '89, coached the university crew in the tank yesterday.

An effort is being made at Amherst to allow special students all the privileges now granted to regular students.

Stagg, of Yale, was in Cambridge yesterday, and visited the gymnasium and the ball cage, under the guidance of Captain Willard.

The height of the water in the tank has been lowered, so that now it is only eighteen inches deep. The men find that this depth is much more natural.

The Willistonian is publishing a series of articles on Harvard and Yale. The object of the articles is to show the advantages of a course at either college.

The faculty of Princeton has granted the request of the Conference Committee that the gymnasium should be kept open from ten o'clock in the morning till seven o'clock in the evening.

At a meeting of the Fencing Club, evening, S. Dexter, 2nd, '90, was elected a member of the executive committee in place of Ware, '90, resigned, and Thorndike, '90, was elected a member of the election committee.

The oldest lawyer living and still pleading at the bar is Mr. Sidney Bartlett, a graduate of Harvard College. He is now past his ninetieth year, and lately argued a case with ability and success.

Today is the annual day of prayer for schools and colleges. At Yale there will be two special meetings, and according to custom no recitations are held on this day. Rev. Dr. Charles A. Parkhurst of New York will address all members of the University in Dwight Hall at 3 p. m.