Professor A. S. Hill has been spending the past week in Washington.

A. B. Emmes, '92, sailed for the Azores on Wednesday.

20,000 old books are being removed from the stack in Gore Hall to the basement beneath the reading-room.

Leon Viau, of the Cincinnati baseball club, is training the Dartmouth nine.

The last number of the Lampoon is the best one which has appeared for a long time.

Tickets for the Roxbury Latin School athletic meeting will be on sale at Leavitt and Peirce's in a few days.

Odlin, '90, has been elected captain of the Dartmouth football team for next year.

The Yale Lit. medal will not be awarded this year as the essays submitted were not up to the proper standard.

There is a strong feeling at Amherst in favor of forming a triangular baseball league including Amherst, Williams and Dartmouth.

The Yale Exeter Club will hold its first annual dinner on February 6 at Radcliffe's. Professor Cilley will be the guest of the evening.

Last Saturday 112 new members were admitted to the Boston Athletic Association. The membership now reaches 1400.

A comic operetta will probably be given in Lyceum Hall at some time late in the spring, the libretto of which is to be written by Prof. Greenough and the music by Prof. Allen.

The March number of the Collegian will contain a series of letters from editors of college papers on the topic, "Chapel Attendance: Voluntary or Compulsory?" It will also contain a Paris letter by Hesseltine, '88.

The formation of a co-operative society is being agitated at Princeton on account of the exorbitant prices which the students are now obliged to pay for books.

A professorship of physical culture, with an endowment of ten thousand dollars, is to be established at Amherst in memory of the late Henry Ward Beecher.

The following colleges have reported more than 1,000 students: Harvard, 1790; Columbia, 1489; University of Michigan, 1475; Yale, 1,134; Northwestern, 1100; University of Penn., 1067.

Experimental trips have been made with the electric cars the past week from Harvard Square to the West Boston bridge. The running time proves very satisfactory. It is understood that the line will be formally opened from Harvard Square to Bowdoin Square next Friday.

The indoor athletic meeting of the N. A. A. A. A. on March 2 will be the greatest meeting of the kind ever held. Columbia College alone sends fifty entries and the Atherton Athletic Club sends six hundred. Holders of English, Irish, Canadian, American and intercollegiate championships will compete.