The Christmas recess begins Thursday morning, the 23d.

The Yale-Princeton debate will be held at Princeton, March 25, 1898.

Oxford has conferred the degree of Doctor of Civil Science on Nansen, the explorer.

At the last meeting of the Harvard Union J. A. H. Keith 1901 was elected a regular member.

G. A. Connors of the Chicago Athletic Club has been appointed general athletic trainer at Cornell.

J. W. F. Bennett has been elected captain of the University of Michigan football team for next year.

R. Terry, Jr., has been elected captain of the Yale Golf Club for next year, and J. Reid, Jr., vice-captain.

$150,000 has been raised already for the erection of a new law school building at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania Gun Club will hold a match with Lehigh February 26, on the Pennsylvania grounds at Fernwood.

Columbia has challenged Brown to a dual series of track games, the first to be held in Providence in the spring.

The Chess and Whist Clubs have secured a room for the rest of the year in the D. U. club house on Brattle street.

Cornell has been presented with property worth $80,000, and $100,000 in money, for the establishment and maintenance of a hospital.

Brown and Cornell have elected the following football captains: Brown, F. W. Murphy, left end; Cornell, D. M. McLaughlin, right tackle.

The Yale and Princeton Glee Clubs have arranged to unite in giving a concert at Carnegie Hall, Pittsburg, on their regular Christmas trip.

Hon. Chauncey M. Depew has consented to deliver an address, some time during the academic year, before the University, under the auspices of the Harvard Union.

The Yale Gymnastic Association will hold its semi-annual gymnastic contest December 8. The following events will be competed: Horizontal bar, parallel bars, rope climbing and long horse. The man who wins the greatest number of points in the season will be allowed to wear the University Y.