At Longwood yesterday Q A. Shaw beat F. Cobb, but was defeated by P. Manchester. Shaw has had very little practice this season, and therefore played unsteadily.

G. W. Lee beat P. Presbry.There was a meeting of the Brown college alumni yesterday. An oration was delivered by Richard Olney, and a poem was read by Walter C. Bronson, who is about to become a member of the Brown Faculty.

Dr. P. B. Marcou, who will be instructor in French next year, is a son of Professor Marcou of Cambridge, who supports the theory that America is named not for Amerigo Vespucci but after a Central American tribe.

The strawberry night of the Signet took place Tuesday night. About sixty active and past members were present. The first seven from ninety-two were initiated, consisting of Benner, Corbin, Gray. Lamont, Landon, Scudder and Thompson.

The Yale Glee Club has decided to offer two prizes for the best songs composed by members of the university. The prizes will be: fifteen dollars for the best words for a college song, and ten dollars for the best words for a humorous song.