The Yale nine will have no professional coach this year.

Sixteen candidates have come out for the Pennsylvania crew, in answer to the call of Captain Bull.

No graduate coaches have yet appeared at Yale. Captain Treadway has thus far done all the coaching.

Miss Helen Gould has given to Vassar College the sum of $8000 to establish a scholarship in memory of her mother.

Harvard has the largest university library in the United States, the second largest being that of the University of Chicago.

All those who wish to make use of the Yale gymnasium must have a doctor's certificate stating that they are physically sound.

Hon. Henry Watterson of Louisville, Ky., lectured at Dartmouth College Monday on "Life, Career and Death of Abraham Lincoln."

A fund is being raised for the establishment at Princeton of a School of Music, for the study of musical composition, theory and history.

One of the most complete herbariums in the world, that of the late Professor Daniel Cady Eaton, has been given by his family to Yale University.

M. S. Barger '98 recently won the junior court tennis championship of the Boston Athletic Association by defeating Mr. W. S. Patten in two straight sets, 6-3, 6-0.

Charles B. Elliot, the first shell-builder to adopt the sliding seat, died recently in New York of heart disease. He built shells for Harvard and Yale and accopanied the '69 Harvard crew to England.

After the present year, challenges for the intercollegiate chess cup, which hitherto has been restricted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia, may be issued by other colleges. It is expected that Pennsylvania, Cornell, Lehigh, and Lafayette will avail themselves of this privilege.