Professor Keener's second volume on "Qnasi Contracts" is now on sale at Severs.

There will be no lecture in N. H. 4 on Friday. The next meeting in the course will be Monday.

Mr. Gray has announced that during the second half-year he will allow no notes to be issued in Pol. Econ. IV.

The Yale Glee Club offers to members of Yale University a prize of fifteen dollars for the best words for a college song, and the same prize for the best words for a humorous song.

King Oscar, of Sweden, has an article in the February Nineteenth Century. It has no literary merit.

The Columbia sophomore class gave a complimentary dinner, Friday evening to the Ninety-one crew.

Professor Cooke's remarks to the freshmen at the last lecture in Chemistry A have been printed.

All recitations and other college exercises at Yale will be omitted tomorrow, Washington's birthday.

The freshman tug-of-war team will pull with the Tech freshman team at the M. I. T. games next Saturday.

Harvard and Columbia have not arranged an eight-oared race to take place in June, notwithstanding newspaper reports.

Marks in English 7 are posted in Sever 1. Essays substituted for the second hour examination will be found on the desk.

F. H. Means, '88, now at the Yale Theological Seminary, will speak at the meeting of the Y. M. C. A. in Lawrence Hall this evening.

C. H. Taylor jr., '90, has returned from the South having entirely recovered from his severe illness. He will soon be able to return to college.

Owing to a misunderstanding, the Rev. E. W. Warren arrived too late to meet the members and friends of the St. Paul's Society, last evening.

Within the last week Columbia has lost two of its most prominent professors by death-the one, Professor John C. Dalton, under whom the College of Physicians and Surgeons has reached the period of its greatest usefulness; the other Dr. Herman Schmidt, for thirty-three years professor of German language and literature.

A sneak thief entered several rooms in Holyoke House last night. F. E. Zinzeisen, '89, and P. Marquand, '89, room 25, lost money and jewelry. The thief entered No. 16 while the occupants, E. C. Hammond, '91, and H. W. Corning, '91, were asleep, and stole a large amount of money and jewelry. F. E. Keene, '91, room 27, also lost a number of valuable articles. All students living in Holyoke House are warned to lock their doors.