Brown University supports a missionary in Africa, on the Congo.

A new chapter house of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity is being erected at Wesleyan.

It is said that the new Commencement Hall at Princeton will seat 1,800 people.

Of the members of the present Congress three are graduates of Yale and two of Harvard.

Notes of the lectures in Math. 3 since Dec. 1, may be found in the Mathematical library in Sever 22.

Trinity College has recently received $30,000. From its income three scholarships are to be founded.

The first game of the finals in the Chess Tournament was played between Mackaye and Ballou, and was won by the former.

J. C. Sims has been elected president and H. Lanssett vice-president of the board of directors to govern athletics at U. of P.

During the coming year an American edition of Godwin's "Caleb Williams," edited by Mr. Gates, will be published.

The University Club of Boston for which plans were made a year ago, will probably be in operation by the first of January. Graduates of of the Institute of Technology, West Point and the U. S. Naval Academy besides college men are eligible for membership.

Latham, the English raquet champion, defeated Pettitt, B. A. A. three straight sets at raquets on Saturday. The will play again Jan. 5.

Assistant-Professor Wendell has just published a new work entitled, "Cotton Mather - the Puritan Priest" - in the Makers of America series.

The first prize in the declamation competition at Exeter was won by F. R. Steward '93; the second by H. S. Biddleham 93. and the third by F. L. Farrell '94.

Deficiency in freshman gymnasium work will be counted as a condition at Williams, and the delinquents will be required to do extra work next term.

The gilt cross over the entrance to the College Library, said to be a trophy from the siege of Strasburg, was really taken by Amherst of the English Colonial army from the fortress of Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, in 1758, during the French and Indian war.

A movement has been on foot at Columbia to give up athletics altogether, owing to lack of interest and the class debts of $2,834. An attempt will be made, however, to raise enough money to cover this sum, and also to make a last effort to revive the former enthusiasm for athletics.

The senior class of Dartmouth College has elected the following class day officers: class marshal, G. D. Price; assistant marshal, G. B. Coon; orator, E. B. McDuffee; address at tower, W. S. Brigham; address at the college pine, W. R. P. Emerson; class poet, M. P. Thompson; class prophecies, C. L. Weeks, old chapel address, H. E. Andrews; address to undergraduates, J. W. Putnam; campus address, W. S. Thompson; floor manager of commencement ball, F. W. Lakeman; address to the president, W. F. Gelger; address at Bema, Henry Folsom; chronicles, D. C. Bliss; commencement president, W. C. Belknap; secretary and treasurer, E. N. Libby; odist, J. M. Norton; committee for the appointment of other committees, A. M. Strong, W. V. McDuffey, J. J. Rollins, M. Shurtleff, and E. D. Hayes. The question of the advisability of wearing the cap and gown on commencement day was deferred until next term.