5,000 citizens of New York have signed the Columbia College's Memorial petition against the opening of 119th street, which will intersect the Bloomingdale site for the new buildings.

The Williams nine will play as follows: 1st base, Towns; 2d base, Howard; 3d base, J. J. Lynch; short-stop, T. J. Lynch; fielders, Street, Mapes, Roberts and Davies; batteries, J. Hollister, and C. Hollister, McMurray and Draper.

Circulars have been issued by a committee of the alumni of Cornell relating to the formation of the Cornell Central Club. It is proposed to erect a club house on the campus. All who have been students at Cornell shall be eligible to membership.

Mayor Grant has assured President Low of Columbia of the favorable attitude of the city to the amendment of Senator Plunkett's bill, by which the Blooming-dale property will be kept free from streets and a strip ceded to the city to widen 120th street.

In the series of ball games between Harvard and Yale, Yale has won thirty-nine, and scored 502 runs, and Harvard thirty-two, with 527 runs, In the Yale-Princeton series, Yale won thirty-nine, with 479 runs, and Princeton 15, with 309 runs. - Ex.

The Manhattan Athletic Club of New York has arranged games with Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, Lehigh, Dartmouth, Yale freshmen, Amherst, Cornell, Brown and Fordham colleges. The Manhattans will open their season on the last Saturday in March.

A winter substitute for foot-ball has been found at Cornell. A basket is suspended at either end of the gymnasium, and goals are made by landing a foot ball in the baskets. The ball is batted with the hand or thrown but may not be carried. Many of the foot ball players are at work at this.