A prize of $50 has been offered by the Princeton Alumni of Chicago, for the best entrance papers by a Chicago man.
The H. A. A. have received nineteen entries from other colleges for the meeting today. Eight entries are from Yale.
The Columbia college 'varsity crew will get on the water this week. Only eleven men are still in training, and the final eight will be selected this week.
There will be an hour examination in History XIII Tuesday next for men who were under A or B midyears or whose special reports were unsatisfactory.
The Banjo club played last evening at the last regular "Smoke Talk" of the season given by the First Regiment Corps of Cadets at the Thorndike in Boston.
The Monday lecture of Political Economy 1 will be held in Lower Massachusetts. All the members of the course will meet at nine o'clock. Professor MacVane will explain his view of the Wages Fund Theory.
In speaking of intercollegiate rowing contests Archibald Macharen, the English authority upon boating once said: "No man of ordinary stature should be allowed to put a hand to an oar unless his chest has the minimum girch of 36 inches.