On several occasions within the last two or three years, we have received communications in regard to the unnatural delight which some seem to have in making old John intoxicated. Apparently there are certain men now in college who find this a source of considerable amusement. If they all would stop and think seriously of the unfair advantage they take of John's weakness and of the gross injustice they do both to him and his family, we believe there would be none so unmanly or inconsiderate as to continue the abominable habit. Old John is old and feeble enough as he is; let him have every chance to pass the last years of his life as happily as possible. The college will miss him when the time comes for him to go and it seems an inhuman act to force him to his ruin.

In 1785 the vacation of Harvard College were as follows: From Commencement, four weeks; from the third Wednesday in October, two weeks; from the third Wednesday in January, five weeks; from the second Wednesday in April, two weeks. In all thirteen weeks.

At the last track meeting of the University of Pennsylvania, the American intercollegiate record in the two mile bicycle race was broken by George M. Coates. His time was 5 min., 36 sec., one second less than the former record.

The committee on track athletics at the University of Pennsylvania have announced the following changes in the standards for qualifying for the track team: Putting the shot, 34 feet 6 inches; two mile bicycle, 6 minutes 5 seconds; running broad jump, 20 feet.