The January number of Harper's Magazine contains a paper by Professor A. B. Hart on, "What the Founders of the Union Thought Concerning Territorial Problems."

Gold medals of the same design as those given in the past to University debaters will be given to the members of the debating team which recently defeated Princeton.

Under the general head, "English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: A Retrospect," Professor Lewis E. Gates is contributing a series of essays to the Critic. The first of the series entitled "The Romantic Movement" appears in the January number.

"Only the Master Shall Praise," by John Oskison A.B., Leland Stanford Junior University, is the prize story in the Century Magazine's competition for college graduates in 1898. During the collegiate year 1898-99, the writer was in the Harvard Graduate School, specializing in English.