Ex-President Hill of Harvard is seriously ill and not expected to live.

There are now but 58 men on the waiting list at Memorial.

Over thirty men from the class of '91 have settled in Chicago.

Geo. T. Keyes '89 is the superintendent of a paper mill in Holyoke, Mass.

Yale's oldest alumnus is a graduate of the class of 1820.

The University of Pennsylvania offers 387 different courses of instruction. - Ex.

In the Harvard Yale game each team will probably have six old and five new players.

It is probable that Sanford '94 S. will play centre for Yale today instead of Stillman.

R. M. Lovett '92 has been elected one of the vice-presidents of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity.

Brown University has opened a woman's department. The students may take the examination and obtain certificates of proficiency, but may receive no classification or diploma.

Hereafter themes in English B. will be returned in Sever 1 instead of Sever 11.

The oldest student in the college is in the Graduate School. He is seventy-seven years old, graduated from Yale in 1834, and is now here especially to hear Professor Norton's lectures on Dante and Italian Art.

Five hundred students of the University of Kief have been arrested by the Russian government for revolutionary actions.

Professor Bocher is to give a series of private lectures on French painting and art criticism in Cambridge this winter.

The first of next year Houghton and Mifflin will publish the lectures on Philosophy that Prof. Royce delivered last winter.

Merrill Shurtluff '92 has been elected captain of the Dartmouth base ball team. John Ward will coach the team this winter.

The N. E. Intercollegiate Athletic Association will probably give up the tug-of-war and the bicycle race in all future meetings.

The contest for the boxing championship of New England will be held Dec. 10 in Bumstead Hall, and Dec. 12 in Music Hall, Boston.

American colleges derive about two-fifths of their income from students, while English universities get only one tenth from the same source.- Ex.

There are 320 colleges in France. At Olivet students are not allowed to enter any field day sport unless their scholarship average is eighty per cent.

Professor Norton has collected from the unpublished work of James Russell Lowell a volume which will soon be published as "Latest Literary Essays and Addresses."

The list of leaders for the Thursday meetings of the Y. M C. A. for the rest of the term is as follows: Dec. 3, Mr. F. A. Dorman '94; Dec. 10, Rev. Brooke Herford, D. D.; Dec. 17, Mr. G. P. Costigan Jr., '92; Jan. 7, Professor D. G. Lyon; Jan. 14, Mr. F. H. Wood, Gr.; Jan. 21 Professor H. C. G. Von Jagemann; Jan. 28, Mr. H. McK. Landon '92; Feb. 4, W. J. H. Strong '93; Feb. 11, Mr. S. P. White '95.