Mr. J. J. Hayes will read in Philadelphia next Wednesday, and in Chickering Hall, Boston, under the auspices of the Copley Square school, February 12, 19, and 26, and March 6.

Contrary to the usual custom in German 1a, the translation from English into German, on the mid-year paper will this year be based entirely on a series of thirty-three anecdotes memorized by the class during the term.

The Yale alumni of Brooklyn are preparing for their annual reunion and dinner to be held on Monday, February 3. The committee have secured as speakers several prominent alumni. Hon. D. J. Brewer, the new justice of the supreme court is expected to be present.

At the annual reunion and dinner of the Brown University club in New York last Friday evening it was announced that a movement is on foot to raise one hundred thousand dollars for the university. Thirty-five thousand has already been pledged, and it is expected that the remainder will be raised in a short time. The fund will known as the Professor Lincoln fund, Professor Lincoln being the oldest member of the faculty.

Dr. Hitchcock, director of the department of physical culture at Cornell, is preparing an illustrated work on in-door athletics. It will contain illustrations for which students will pose, of over a hundred positions in wrestling, boxing and fencing. He is also compiling a chart showing the physical proportions of young men. Statistics of measurements will be drawn from Yale, Amherst, Oberlin, Cornell and various colleges throughout the country.