Eighteen men have entered for the annual whist tournament of the Chess and Whist club.

Cairnes' Political Economy will be taken up at the next recitation in Political Economy 1.

In the announcement of the officers for the senior class dinner the name of the toastmaster, K. Fairbank, was omitted.

There will be a special meeting of the board of overseers Wednesday to act on communications from the president and fellows.

At the last meeting of the executive committee of the Conference Francaise, the following new members were elected: F. B. Lemann, '92, G. H. Schudder, '92, Hutchins Hapgood, '92, V. M. Porter, '92, G. E. Hume, '93, Patterson, '93.

The New England Intercollegiate Press association held its fourth annual dinner and business session at the Quincy house, Boston, Saturday evening. Representatives of fourteen college papers attended. Samual Abbott, Williams, '87, was elected president for the ensuing year.

An interesting observation was made by assistants of the observatory during the electrical storm of last week. The assistants, who were at their homes in different parts of Cambridge, all heard the clap of thunder only two or three seconds after they saw the flash. As the difference in the rates at which sound and light travel is only five seconds a mile, it is proved that in such electrical storms the rate of sound is much accelerated.

At a meeting of the intercollegiate lacrosse association last Saturday, representatives were present from Princeton, Lehigh and Stevens Institute. The resignation of Harvard was accepted, and Johns Hopkins university was admitted to membership. The championship for 1889 was awarded to Princeton and E. S. Lewis, of Princeton, was elected president of the association for the ensuing year.