During the vacation the gymnasium floor has been newly marked out, and the usual winter classes will soon be formed.

The door to the new entrance to Upper Massachusetts has been completed during the recess. It is identical with the one to Lower Massachusetts.

Professor F. W. Putnam has just been elected president of the American Folk Law Society at a meeting held in Washington.

W. O'Connor, the champion oarsman of America, has issued a challenge to any man on earth to row three miles for the world's championship.

The gifts and bequests received by Yale during last year amounted to $1,151,272. This is a greater amount than in any other year in Yale's history.

Professors Shaler, Goodale and Minot delivered memorial addresses on the late Samuel Dexter at the recent meeting of the Boston Natural History Society.

A chess tournament between Yale and Princeton will soon take place, as the $100 required toward the cup has recently been pledged by a Princeton man.

Professor Adolph Cohn, who left Harvard this year to go to take charge of the French department at Columbia, was in Cambridge during the vacation.

Columbia College possesses the famous Rutherford photographs which are the earliest made photographs of the moon and were taken in the Lick Observatory in 1888.

The next theme in German 3 is due Jan. 25. It may be upon either "Musikus Miller" or the fifth act of "Kable and Liebe," but no A's will be given on the second subject.

Twenty-five years ago the first college in this country was opened to women, and it is stated there are today 40,000 women studying in the various collegiate institutions.