Editors Daily Crimson:

DEAR SIRS.- Just at this time the one absorbing topic that interests our university is foot ball. The game of last Saturday is talked over and the prospects of success on Thanksgiving day. If the arrangements in the future for the handling of the crowds and preservation of good order, at the big championship games, will only equal those at Springfield, the pleasure of attending the games will be much increased.

Arrangements for the annual junior promenade, to be held near the beginning of next term, are being made. Everything is being done by the class committee to make our greatest social event of the year a marked success. The whole week is to be one of gaiety. The Glee club concert, junior promenade, various class Germans, spreads, private dances and receptions will occupy nearly all the week.

After the end of the foot-ball season little time will remain before the close of the college term for athletic work of any kind. But after the Christmas vacation the crew will begin regular training. Up to this time little work of any importance has been done. Of last year's crew five are still in college, although out of these only three can be counted on for positions in the boat. Gill and Hartwell will probably not row. The most prominent candidates at present are: Aiken, '91, Isham, '91, Simms, '90S., Klimpke, '92' Swayne, '92, and Balliet, '92. Besides these there ought to be two or three fair men in the freshman class, and a number of the foot ball team may be persuaded to play.

At the opening of next term the new Osborne Recitation Hall will be ready occupation. The need of more proper rooms for lectures and recitations has been felt and this building will meet all the requirements, With this new hall and a gymnasium under way of construction two long wished for things seem all but obtained.

Until last year it was always customary to give a short vacation at Thanks-giving time, from Wednesday to Monday, but last fall a change was made and the short vacation was removed and an equal number of days added to the Christmas intermission. The plan gave such satisfaction to the students that it is to be tried again this year.

YALE NEWS.