The '89 Signet was photographed yesterday.

James Russell Lowell is seventy years old today.

The Yale Chicago Club held a dinner at Radcliffe's last Tuesday evening.

The names of the men in the '89 Phi Beta Kappa will be published shortly.

The Connecticut Club dinner has been postponed until Wednesday, March 6.

The batting averages of those trying for the Yale university nine are posted in the cage every week.

Georgetown University (Jesuit) celebrated on Wednesday its one hundredth anniversary.

Last Wednesday, Feb. 20, was the one hundred and sixth anniversary of Phillips Exeter Academy.

Dr. Scott, Principal of Phillips Exeter, will lecture at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., tomorrow.

A number of Yale sophomores have gone into training for a four-oared barge race to take place on Lake Whitney in May.

History 13 and 17. The conference hour will be omitted on Saturday, February 23. On Monday the hour will be from 2.30 to 3.30 p. m.

Of the fifty-five members of the senior class at Andover, thirty-three will go to Yale, fourteen to Harvard, one to Dartmouth, one to Princeton, and six remain uncertain.

The annual dinner of the class of '69 E. H. S. took place at Young's Hotel, Wednesday evening, and the dinner of the class of '86 E. H. S. was held last night at the same place.

Allen Lowe, the present fencing master of the Harvard Fencing Club, was matched last evening against Shaw of Boston in his first professional bout. The bout was won after much skillful fencing by Mr. Lowe.

Mr. J. Ingersoll Bowditch, a well known resident of Jamaica Plain, died at his residence last Thursday. Mr. Bowditch was well known in scientific circles and published several editions of "Bowditch's American Navigator." In 1849 Harvard conferred upon him the honorary degree of A. M., and in 1886 at the 250th anniversary added the higher degree of LL. D.

The English department has requested all members of the freshman class taking English A to hand in an account of their preparation in English at the various fitting schools. The object is to find out whether the preparation is inadequate or the entrance examinations too difficult, as a large number of freshmen have been conditioned in English.

The attendance at the gymnasium contests at Yale Tuesday evening was remarkably large. The tug-of-war between the Yale and Second Regiment teams was unusually exciting. At the end of one minute the mark was even; at two, the Second Regiment had the rope by half an inch; at three, by three-quarters; at four, by one-quarter; the Yale team then made a strong brace, and when time was called, the mark was even. The Yale team was made up as follows: 1, Crall; 2, Veeder; 3, Lowe; anchor, Hanson.