The Semitic Building Committee has definitely decided to postpone the erection of the new building until next spring.

The Quinquennial Catalogue for 1900, just out, contains 615 pages, 100 more than the '95 edition. The whole number of degrees which have been conferred by the University, including honorary degrees, is given as 26,488.

In the Metropolitan regatta which will be held June 18, the B. A. A. will be represented in the senior singles by E. L. Pope; in the junior singles by A. W. Stevens '97, and in the senior four by E. Wadsworth, stroke; L. Davis, 3; E. W. Fenno, 2; A. Geiger, Jr., bow.

Passed in the examination for the position of assistant engineers, class A, in the construction of the New York subway and eligible for appointment: M. H. Ryan '97, H. J. Alexander '00, J. P. Locke '00, T. B. Shertzer '00, R. H. Watson '00, F. Wilcock '00.

New York University has received a gift of $100,000 to be used in building a Hall of Fame for great Americans. The building is to be a colonade five hundred feet long, located on University Heights and facing the palisades. One hundred and fifty panels, each about two by eight feet will be provided for inscriptions. Fifty of these will be inscribed in 1900, provided fifty names are approved. At the close of every five years additional panels will be inscribed so that the entire number will be completed by the year 2000.

The Yale senior class book which will be issued shortly places the present membership of the class at 327. The average age is given as 23 years and 2 months; average weight as 151 1-2 pounds. There are twenty-two men over six feet tall. The class has spent in New Haven $1,250,000, distributed as follows: For board, $250,000; room rent, $135,000; tuition, $209,000; books, $35,000. Average expenses are shown to have increased from $858 in the freshman year to $1,001 in the senior year. Of the 327 members of the class, 80 will study law, of whom 21 will come to the Harvard Law School, and 11 will enter the Yale Law School; 27 medicine; and 9 theology. Thirty-five will enter business life, and 176 are undecided.