There will be no nine from Columbia this year.

There are four crews at work at the University of Pennsylvania.

Keefe, the New York pitcher, has started to train the Princeton nine.

Columbia, Dartmouth and Williams have dispensed with Commencement orations.

The Amherst Glee Club will take a western trip during the latter part of March.

The class of '88 of Amherst, will hold its third annual dinner about March 6th.

Williams is going to have two athletic meets this year, one next month and one at the end of the year.

J. B. Paine '91 has just completed the designs of a 45 foot sloop, which he will race next summer.

Dr. McCosh has just been elected an honorary member of the Presbyterian Union of New York City.

There is a moqement on foot to establish a chair of the Irish language at the University of Pennsylvania.

The annual convention of the American College Baseball League will be held at the Quincy House, Feb. 6.

The photographs of the 'varsity eleven in two sizes, 11x14 and 17x20, will be on sale at Pach's the latter part of the week.

H. Curtis of the High Gate Harriers recently broke the ten mile walking record, making the distance in 1 hour, 19 min., 27 3-5 sec.

Of the candidates for the Princeton athletic team 25 are running, 7 walking, 4 for pole vaulting and 6 for the shot and hammer.

The convention of the New England College Y. M. C. A. is to be held at Williams next month. The session begins on Feb. 6th and lasts until the following Monday.

The freshman class at Amherst has elected the following men as an executive committee: A. E. Stearns, A. B. Taylor, B. D. Hyde, P. Schennck, and W. D. Wood.

The Wiliams College nine has begun regular training with exercise in the gymnasium. Spaulding, the pitcher of last year, is taking a post-graduate course and will play.