The regular Boston University social will be held Dec. 9.

E. B. Bloss '94 will run in the Manhattan games on Saturday.

Five new buildings are being erected at the University of Chicago.

It is estimated that the gate receipts for the Yale game amount to over $50,000.

The indoor games of the Manhattan Athletic Club will be held Saturday evening.

A new dormitory will be built next summer behind 5 and 7 Linden Street to contain about 40 rooms.

The Cornell musical clubs will give their first performance in New York City about the first of February.

The accessions to the Yale library during the past year amounted to 8730 volumes and 29,000 pamphlets.

Cambridge University, England, is in such need of money that it was not able to made a necessary addition, costing $1500, to the library.

The college of Auburn, Alabama, defeated Trinity College in the first championship game of the Southern Collegiate series by a score of 36 to 6.

The annual convention of the Chi Phi college fraternity will be held in New York today and tomorrow. Delegates are expected from twenty-six chapters.

The campus of the Leland Stanford University of Palo Alto, Cal.. covers about 70 000 acres. It contains a drive-way seventeen +++ in length.

The last issue of the Illustrated American contains pictures of McCormick of Yale, King of Princeton, and Trafford of Harvard.

The Columbia College Dramatic Club is arranging for performances in the Berkeley Lyceum on December 8, 9 and 10. After December 15, a short trip will be made through New York State.

Of the 13 'varsity foot-ball captains which Yale has had since the present manner of playing was adopted, 3 have been half-backs, 2 tackles, 2 quarter-backs, 2 centres, 2 ends and 2 guards.

Simon Newcomb, superintendant of the Nautical Almanac and professor of mathematics at John Hopkins, is to give a course of lectures on the relations of mathematics to political economy.

The Univ. of Penn. football team has been invited by the M. A. C. to play the team of that club in Madison Square Garden next Saturday night. The winners are to receive gold watches.

Newton High School won the Junior Interscholastic League by defeating Roxbury Latin School 8 to 4. In this game Newton used Mr. Deland's flying wedge very successfully.

Robinson '94 has broken the record in the strength test at Tufts College with a total strength of 2420 pounds which is equal to about 1100 according to Dr. Sargent's system.