K. Nakamura '95 Sp. gave a New Year's reception in Japanese style Monday evening.

There are at present 600 students and 119 professors and tutors at the University of Chicago.

Professor Horsford's funeral will be held at Dr. McKenzie's church on Garden St. at noon today.

The lecture room in Boylston Hall has been extensively altered during vacation for the benefit of English A.

Rev. Samuel Eliot, son of President Eliot, preached his first sermon at his new church in Brooklyn on New Year's Day.

The football game between Stanford University and University of California, which resulted in a tie, will be played off in a few weeks.

Owing to the cutting after vacation, a system of registration after vacation similar to that in use here, has been adopted at Princeton.

The outside reading for the rest of the year in German 5, was given out yesterday. Three of Lessing's works, five of Schiller's, and five of Goethe's must be read.

The Congregational clergymen at New Haven have asked President Dwight of Yale to put a stop to betting and gambling at the university.

Provost William Pepper of the University of Pennsylvania, turns back to the University by various gifts his salary of $10,000 every year.

In 1878 Professor Horsford endowed the library of Wellesley College, increasing the number of books from 16,000 to 40,000 and erecting a new building.

The New Haven Y. M. C. A intends to have a relay foot race from this city to New York. It is expected that all the best runners of Connecticut will enter.

A new book "Dartmouth Prose", is soon to be published at Dartmouth. It is intended to be a compilation of the prose works of Dartmouth's recent graduates.

Last year the expenses of the Princeton Y. M. C. A. were $2,680 of which $1,080 went to foreign missions. The total expenses of the Yale organization were $1,967.

At a recent meeting of the Y. M. C. A. at the University of Pennsylvania $1600 was raised on the spot for a religous building. Since then about $5000 has been raised.

J. D. Donevan, letter carrier, wishes publicly to thank the editors of CRIMSON. the Advocate, and the Monthly, and also the students in the north entry of Thayer Hall for their kindness to him on Christmas and New Year.

The chess tournament was finished Monday night, Columbia winning first place. Wilson of Harvard defeated Bumstead of Yale in a short and dicisive game thus giving Harvard the second place. Yale came next and Princeton last The best individual play was that of Hymes of Columbia and Ballou of Harvard.

Dartmouth has received by the will of Dr. Butterworth '39, property worth $180-000 for the purpose of "founding and forever maintaining a professorship for general instruction in archaeology, ethnology, and other kindred subjects, and for the erection of a building, to cost not less than $30,000, for a museum for these branches.