The ball nine of the Leland Stanford Jr. University played its first match game yesterday.

The Princeton Glee Club will give its annual spring concert in Philadelphia on March 17.

The number of candidates for Yale's 'varsity nine has been reduced from forty-one to thirty-one.

The first prize offered by the University of Chicago will be given by Prof. Hirsch of the Semitic department.

The Williams Baseball Club has elected John R. Searles of Rome, N. Y., as manager for the coming season.

Mr. E. Charlton Black will read his paper on the author of "Rob and His Friends" before the Women's Association of Boston, this week.

The eastern division of the Chi Phi College Fraternity held its annual dinner at Springfield last Tuesday.

F. G. Thompson '95 has been elected manager of the Tufts football eleven, and C. D. Clark chosen captain.

Rev. Arthur Brooks of New York preached a sermon, Sunday, in memory of his brother, Phillips Brooks.

The subjects for the long theme in French 6 will be posted on the bulletin board in Sever 23. on Wednesday.

E. B. Bloss '94 has been called home on account of the death of his father and will not return until after the April recess.

Mrs. Moses Hopkins of San Francisco has decided to give $50,000 and 19 acres of land to the Hopkins Academy in that city.

A tract of 160 acres in Natick has been sold to a syndicate which intends to build a college for women, similar to Wellesley.

M. D. Desperadelle of the Etalier Pascal has been engaged to fill the position left vacant by the death of Prof. Litang at the M. I. T.

Prof. E. Charlton Black will give a lecture on Tennyson March 21, at the Second Universalist Church, Columbus Avenue.

The junior members of the Boston College Athenaeum will produce the "Comedy of Errors" during Easter week in the college hall.

The faculty of Kentucky University has suppressed all college sports on account of alleged gambling among the students.

The Whist tournament at Brown was won by Messrs. Kimball and Bennet '94 who defeated Messrs. Brownell '94 and Chace '96,100 to 54.

Wm. Coolidge Lane, assistant librarian of the University has been elected to succeed Mr. Cutter, as librarian of the Boston Atheneum.

The Yale faculty has notified the 'varsity nine that the ban placed on the freshman players, restraining them from intercollegiate baseball, does not extend to the applicants for the 'varsity team.