Hamilton and Lewis of the Boston National League baseball team have been reengaged by the baseball management to coach the nine this season.

The captains and managers of the Yale and Harvard crews will meet this week to arrange a date for the University and Freshman races this spring. Particulars as to the course and the time of starting will also be arranged.

The palaeontological department of the Museum of Comparative Zoology has lately been increased by the addition of the large coral collection made during the past twenty five years by Major William J. Davis of Louisville, Kentucky. This famous collection was purchased by Mr. Alexander Aggassiz, and given by him to the Museum. For size and beauty of preservation of its specimens no other collection equals it.

The Yale Athletic Associations has decided to call a mass meeting to vote a new scheme for raising funds to support college athletics. The undergraduates will be called together today and will act upon a proposition for assessing every student seven dollar to pay the expenses of the track and rowing associations. There are the only teams of the university that do not support themselves.