Hour Examinations will be held today in N. H. 4 and 8.

There were no lectures in Philosophy I and Pol. Econ. VIII. yesterday.

A literary club has been formed by the faculty of Rutgers college.

The sum collected for the college postman at Yale this year is $105.

The interclass tug-of-war contests at Columbia took place last evening.

Williams has received a new scholarship, the income of $2,500 from C. F. Gilson.

The summer vacation at Williams college has been shortened from eleven to ten weeks.

Smith College, Northampton, has five hundred students, seventy-four more than last year.

Walter L. Camp, Yale '80, is writing an article on track athletics at Yale, for the Century.

There were hour examinations in Latin 2, Italian I, History I, and History XII yesterday.

Wellesley college has limited its number of students to 640, until better accommodations can be secured.

The Princeton nine will begin practicing January 4th, using the gymnasium untill the cage is completed.

A. P. Butler '88, is in San Francisco, in charge of the interests of the Woven Hose Company on the Pacific coast.

The Princeton Philadelphia club expects to hold its annual dinner December 26, at Hotel Bellevue, Philadelphia.

Professor Murray, of Oxford, England, is only twenty-four years of age and is probably the youngest man ever elected to a first-class chair in any of the great English universities.

About one-half the students in Rutgers college and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary were summoned as witnesses in the investigation of frauds at the late election.

A report has been circulated in the newspapers that at the next meeting of the Intercollegiate Athletic association, a rule will be passed providing that only undergraduate students will be allowed to compete.

At a meeting of the Free Wool club last night the following men were elected regular members of the club: G. O. Swasey, '90, S. Sanford, '90, J. B. Scott, '90, H. S. Wilkinson, '91, A. A. Morris, '92, G. A. Dorsay, '92, Gans '93, F. P. Kidder, '93, H. P. Williams, '93, G. R. Gileth, Sp.

The Dramatic club at Columbia has announced that "Whittington and His Cat" will be produced in the latter part of January. The first performance will be given for the benefit of the Skin and Cancer Hospital. After that, benefits for the crew, foot-ball team and athletic association will be given.

The alarm of fire which was sent out from College House yesterday noon was caused by smoke in the students' rooms which came from a furnace fire under Merrill's store. There was no fire in the building, but the flues did not carry off the smoke which poured down into the fireplaces of the different rooms.

The Week's Sport says that if an All-American football team were made up it should be composed as follows: Rushers-Cumnock (Harvard), Cowan (Princeton), Cranston (Harvard), George (Princeton), Heffelfinger (Yale), Gill (Yale), Stagg (Yale); quarterback, Poe (Princeton); half-backs, Lee (Harvard), Channing (Princeton); fullback, Ames (Princeton). It gives as the substitutes, Dean (Harvard), Trafford (Harvard), Black (Princeton), and McBride (Yale), behind the line, Janeway (Princeton), Stickney (Harvard), Donnelly (Princeton), and Rhodes (Yale) in the line.