The board of management of the Amateur Athletic Union have adopted rules, to govern amateur athletic contests, which differ in many respects from the old rules.

Since 1880 out of forty-two competitions in the 100 yards, 220 yards, 440 yards, and 880 yards dashes at the intercollegiate games Harvard has won twenty-three times.

During the holidays the Boston Record published a series of interviews with Harvard graduates on the much discussed and well-worn topic, "What is the matter with Harvard in athletics?"

In the last number of the Nation there are a number of letters on topics of interest to college men; "College Attendance," "College Graduates and Business," and "Chairs of Pedagogy." In the same issue Professor Todd has a second letter on "The African Eclipse Expedition."

Professor W. G. Farlow is the lecturer in the present Lowell Institute course. The course will consist of eight lectures upon the principal points of the flowery kingdom. The first lecture was given Monday evening on "Flowerless plants;" the second one was given last evening.