The average weight of the Columbia freshman crew is 149 pounds.

A cablegram announces that Dr. C. F. P. Bancroft, principal of the Phillips Andover Academy, who is traveling in Egypt and the Holy Land this year, has arrived at Cairo on his way down the Nile. He is said to have been present at the baseball game between the Chicagos and the All-Americans, played near the pyramids.

The annual banquet of the Delta Kappa Epsilon of New England will come off at the Parker House this evening. President Walker of the Institute of Technology will preside, and society members who cannot attend the dinner are invited to come in for the speeches and dinner which will follow.

Two racing shells have been ordered by the navy of E. Waters and Son, the well-known builders of Troy, N. Y. Contrary to the usual custom, the model for the shell to be used by the university crew and that for the freshman crew are exactly similar. The freshman shell is to be ready March 1, while the university shell will not be finished until a month after that time. Each boat is to be furnished with the most improved appliances, and when finished will cost about $400. It is a noticeable fact in the history of Yale-Harvard races in eight-oared shells that since their inception every race has been won in a paper boat, whether the victory fell to Harvard or Yale, although cedar boats have been thoroughly tried.- Yale News.