Mr. W. Q. Ripley of the class of '94, Technology, has been appointed instructor in Political Science for the coming year.

The University of Chicago will send a delegate to Oberlin in May to ask for admission to the Northern Oratorical League.

A great many changes will be made at Tufts College this year. New buildings are to be raised and the old ones will be renovated.

President Harper of the University of Chicago will be guest at the twelfth reunion of the Boston Colby Union Alumni Association.

A new machine for determining transverse strength in beams, and will a capacity of 10000 pounds has been added to the laboratory at the Institution of Technology.

The editorial board of the Phillipian, the Andover paper, was given a supper Saturday night by the three latest addition to the board, Messrs. Grilk, Lewis, and Skerrye.

An association for physical development under the name of "Smith Gymnasium Field Association," has been organized at Smith College.

A new curriculum which is to be adopted at Wellesley this fall is so proportioned that only about one third of the amount necessary for a degree consists of required studies.

A scientific expedition from the University of Iowa will leave Baltimore, about May 1, in a sailing vessel, for a voyage of scientific research among the Bahama Islands.

Professor Poole, for forty years, connected with the British Museum, lately being in charge of ancient coins, is about to leave that institution to become a lecturer in University College, Cambridge.

At the annual reunion and dinner of the alumni of Brown of New York and vicinity, Attorney-general Richard Olney '56, and President Harper of the University of Chicago are among the invited guests.

At the University of Pennsylvania recently the various musical organizations of the university volunteered their services for an entertainment in the interest of the proposed Young Men's Christian Association building.

The three big Yale football games netted the following profits respectively: University of Pennsylvania, $2588.71; Harvard, $10,553.65; Princeton, $12,388.18. The total expenditures of the team were $14,550.82 leaving a balance of $16,749.89.

At a special business meeting of the New Harvard Union held yesterday the following men, who were recommended by the judges after the debate on Friday evening were elected to membership: E. Cockrell '95, S. H. Foster L. S., E. Goldmark '94, J. Hewins '96, S. E. Johnson '95, M. M. Skinner '94.

The first practice game of the season was played on Jarvis Saturday. Gale and Hyler each pitched about twelve outs. The first nine was made up as follows: C. Corbet, 1b. Dickinson, 2b. Frothingham, ss. Sullivan, 3b Cook, cf. Hallowell, rf. Paine, lf. Abcott. The second nine was a scrub team picked from various sources.