A room in No. 24 Holyoke street is to let for the rest of the year.

As there was no laboratory exercise in N. H. 4a yesterday, there will be a lecture for all the sections to-day, at 12 o'clock, in the laboratory.

Mr. Edward Ferris, who has taught sparring at the gymnasium for several years past, has been appointed instructor in that art in the Boston Athletic Club.

The American Society of Naturalists held their annual meeting at Baltimore last week, and elected Prof. George L. Goodale president. Most of the other officers are college professors.

The occupants of Holyoke House were greatly disturbed last night by smoke which filled the entire house. Some one's chimney had become stopped up.

Charles H. Sherrill, the Yale sprinter, is now lying dangerously ill at his home in Washington, and his attending physicians say that even should he recover he will never be able to run again.

Mr. William Barnes, jr., '88, has become proprietor and editor of the Albany Morning Express. Mr. Barnes was formerly a member of the CRIMSON board, and since graduation has been employed on the staff of the Albany Journal.

Somebody has been looking over Princeton's list of graduates who have become prominent in public life, and finds that it includes two signers of the Declaration of Independence, twenty-seven delegates to the Continental Congress, one President (Madison), two Vice-Presidents and five nominated as candidates, seventeen Cabinet officers, one chief-justice, five associate justices, seventeen foreign ministers, fifty-one Senators and 115 Representatives. besides two speakers of the House.

The concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Sanders Theatre last evening was well attended, and the audience showed their appreciation of an interesting and admirably executed performance, by liberal applause. The programme was as follows:- Symphony in D major No. 2, Haydn; Tamino's aria from the "Magic Flute," Mozart; Symphonic poem "Tasso," Liszt; song "Adelaide," Beethoven; introduction and closing scene from "Tristan and Isolde," Wagner. The soloist was Mr. Charles F. Webber.