Agassiz, '84, visited the tank yesterday afternoon.

There are now fifteen candidates for the Princeton nine.

Nearly 350 tickets have been sold for the Yale New York dinner.

The Cambridge University crew will be identically the same this year as last.

Efforts are being made at Yale to make the Gun Club a university organization.

The Yale freshmen have voted to refrain from any disturbance on Washington's birthday.

Grover Flint, '88, and E. Wright, '89, will sail from Brooklyn for Gibralter on Saturday.

The engagement of H. M. Paul, '88, to Miss Margaret Fuller of Cambridge is announced.

The Yale freshman glee club has been chosen. It is made up of twenty-six members.

The University of Toronto proposes to send a baseball club on a tour of the American colleges.

Wesleyan has established a House of Commons. The speaker of the House appoints the ministry.

The plan of locking the door at five minutes past nine o'clock has been adopted in History 12.

University of Pennsylvania will erect a dormitory at a cost of $125,000, which is to be the largest in the United States.

The University of Pennsylvania nine will make an eastern trip in June, playing in all the principal college cities.

Yesterday at Northampton, E. H. Ferry, '86, was married to Miss Annie O. Parsons. H. Lamont, '86, acted as best man.

Mr. Sidney Bartlett, the oldest graduate of Harvard at present practicing law, celebrated his ninetieth birthday on Wednesday last.

Amherst College is preparing a very elaborate display of catalogues, publications, photographic views and other things of interest for the Paris Exposition.

Yale has changed the character of the prizes for indoor athletic contests, substituting for medals and cups ornaments of various kinds, as silver and cut glass.

The Oxford University Dramatic Society is to play "Julius Caesar" on February 12. The presentation is producing much discussion in academic circles in England.

G. L. Gibson (third class), of the Medical School, has successfully competed in a class of seventeen, representing various medical colleges, for the position of senior house officer of St. Luke's Hospital, New York, surgical department, and will assume his duties about March 1.

General Armstrong, of Hampton, Va., will deliver two lectures before the University next week-one on the "Education of the Negro" and the other on the "Education of the Indian." These are the lectures which he recently delivered at Yale by invitation. Professor Peabody was instrumental in inducing him to lecture here.