A most fortunate solution of the Freshman eating problem has just been reached in the completion of the new Dining Halls, which were opened immediately after the Christmas holidays. The Halls accommodate six Freshman clubs. Each club has its individual dining and lounging room, and continues its private organization, but all are now for the first time collectively under the control of University management. A standing committee of eleven undergraduates, consisting of seven Seniors and four Juniors, has entire charge of an arrangements. Although but 180 men are now cared for, it is planned to increase the accommodations, so that next year the entire Freshman class may have a common eating place, doing away with the former catering system. The scheme is popular with all undergraduates, and bids fair to become a regular institution, forming a precedent from which incoming classes will find it difficult to depart.

The University hockey team won two out of a series of three games played with the Quaker City team of Philadelphia at Norfolk, Va., during the Christmas vacation. The final game of the trip was lost, by the score of 5 to 2, to the New York Athletic Club. Last Saturday evening at New York, Princeton lost its first game of the Intercollegiate hockey series to Columbia by the score of 4 to 2.

The afternoon of the same day the University Association football team lost its third game to the Boys' Club of New York by the score of 3 to 1.

Regular basketball practice has been resumed and the team is slowly rounding into form.

Of the new buildings, the Alumni Dormitory is rapidly nearing completion. Nearly all the stone work is finished and the roof has been placed in position so that the work may be continued. The new Faculty room in the south wing of historic Nassau Hall will soon be ready for occupancy. The foundations for McCosh Hall, the new recitation building, have been laid, but the work has been discontinued until spring.