Prof. Goodale expects to begin his lectures in Botany I on Thursday March 9.

There are more Yale graduates studying at Harvard than from any other one university.

Columbia is trying to get Gill, Yale's football captain in '90 to coach her team next fall.

The University of the City of New York has received a valuable library from Gotlengen, Germany.

The Alumni of the M. I. T. are going to pay the expenses of the Institute's exhibit at the World's Fair.

The sophomore class of the College of Liberal Arts of Boston University will put a ball nine in the field.

Prof. J. P. Shelly of Princeton will lecture in New York next Friday evening on "Life in Modern Greece."

The Columbia Athletic Club will hold a boxing tourney at the New York Industrial Building on April 6 and 8.

The classes of '91 and '93 of Tufts college, held their annual class dinners at Young's hotel, Monday evening.

The annual dinner of the Bowdoin Alumni, in Portland and its vicinity, was held at the Falmouth, Saturday evening.

One of the features of the championship meeting, Saturday night at the South Armory, will be the M. I. T. class team race.

Prof. Comstock of Cornell is spending the winter at Leland Stanford where he is acting as professor of entomology.

A vial containing cholera germs has been procured from Berlin for the new bacteriological laboratory at Rochester.

The New York Alumni of the University of Pennsylvania had their first annual dinner recently at the Insurance Club of New York.

The senior class at Williams will wear caps and gowns to chapel and morning recitations from May 15th until commencement.

A trial for voices for an operetta has been held at Brown. The proceeds of the production will be given to the football association.

Prof. Duncan C. Lee has been elected to the chair of oratory at Cornell. He succeeds Prof. Brainerd Smith who was recently called to Hamilton College.

F. S. Fales has been elected temporary captain of the Amherst freshman baseball team. Hereafter all freshmen trying for the 'varsity will train with their class team.

It is said that there is to be a signal station established at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, in connection with the meteorological observatory.

Herr Lasker, the chess player, will give a course of twelve lectures on "The Theory of the Differential Equation," at Tulane University, New Orleans.

The University of Pennsylvania Courier in speaking of the outlook of the base ball championship says: "Yale has conceded us second place, with Harvard first, in the League; but we think that the crimson even may have to give place to our colors, as leader, when the season is finished."

A meeting of the Junior class at Amherst was recently held to consider the disposition of "Sabrina," the statue now in possession of '94. The plan was to make the statue the object of competition between the Sophomore and Freshman classes, and that it should be awarded to the class making the best record in the spring track athletics. After considerable discussion the plan was rejected.