The mid-year examination in N. H. 4 will be topical.

Professor MacVane will have charge of History 1 after the mid years.

Mr. Cobb will announce the result of the recent examination in N. H. 4 today.

The next thesis in History IX is due on the first Wednesday after the midyears.

G. W. Colby, Gr., has written an article for the English Historical Review.

Professor H. B. Hill, of the Chemical Department, is unable to attend to his courses on account of illness.

Twenty candidates for the Tufts college nine have begun active training in the gymnasium.

If there is any ice during the week the hockey team will play the B. A. A. team a practice game.

At the last meeting of the Historical Society, Justin Winsor read a paper on Columbus.

The outside of the new Weld boat house is completed, and work on the interior will be pushed as rapidly as possible.

An appropriation has been made by the Corporation to publish a monograph by E. C. Mason, instructor in Political Economy, on "Veto Power."

The university boat race between Oxford and Cambridge will be rowed at 11.30 a. m. April 1. It is thought in England that the Oxford eight is the better crew, and will win the race this year.

The excavations for the foundation of the new Yale gymnasium are nearly completed. Sewerage pipes are being laid, and when these are in the foundation will be built.

Some evening in the near future Professor Shaler will meet his class in N. H. 4 to give them information concerning the fields laid open to those who intend to go into geological work.

Professor Stanhope Orris, whom Professor R. B. Richardson, of Dartmouth succeeds as director of the American School in Athens, will resume his work at Princeton next fall.

The second annual reunion and dinner of the St Paul's School alumni association was held at the Hotel Brunswick Saturday evening. A number of Harvard men were present.

At the meeting of the American Historical Association during the holidays Dr. Snow read a paper on "Defence of Congressional Government,' and J. O. Summer, Gr., on "Materials for Confederate History."

The annual coffee party of the Boy's Aid Club of Cambridge took place in Lyceum Hall last Friday, and was a great success. The managers were Spalding, Greenough, and DeWolf, '92, and Dibblee and Parker '93.

Candidates for the Yale freshman crew are taking practice in the rowing tank now, and will continue to do so until spring. An unusually strong lot of men are candidates, and it is expected that the crew will be a fast one.

The January award of scholarships to freshmen is as follows: the five Bright scholarships to P. T. Campbell, J. I. Cochrane, F. B. Gallivan, D. S. Mussey, G. E. Partridge; the Bigelow scholarships to N. E. Reid, T. A. Rippey; the Levina Hoar scholarship to F. P. Kidder.

The following figures taken from the schedule of studies prepared by Registrar Marsh of Amherst show the ratio of elective and prescribed work done there: number of hours of required instruction each week-freshmen 16, sophomores 1, juniors 0, seniors 7. Number of hours of elective instruction each week-freshmen 0, sophomores 32, juniors 40, seniors 35. Total hours of required instruction, 24; elective, 107.