The baseball team held outdoor practice on Monday, and a game was played between two teams. On account of the cold weather the playing was rather slow, but the men batted well considering the small amount of previous practice. The fielding was very erratic and errors were numerous. Owing to the inclement weather, the rest of the practices this week were held in the cage. The squad has been cut down to 24 men.

On Wednesday the swimming team of the New York Athletic Club gave an interesting exhibition in Brokaw Tank. E. H. Adams, the United States champion long distance plunger, made a new record of 70 feet, six inches. C. M. Daniels who holds the world's championship for one hundred yards, and the American championship for all distances illustrated three strokes among them the crawl, a stroke for which he is especially noted. Exhibition games of English "soccer" and American water polo were played by the team.

The wrestling team was defeated by Columbia on Friday evening by a score of four bouts to three. Especially good work was done by J. M. Howell, captain of the Columbia team, who gained the decision in the middleweight bout, and also threw his man in the welterweight bout.

Track practice has been held regularly in the gymnasium. The men competing for the hammer-throw and shot-put have also had some out-door work. The high jumpers and pole-vaulters are improving rapidly.

Colonel Valery Harvard of the Medical Department of the United States army, delivered an illustrated lecture on "The Medical Aspects of the Russo-Japanese War" on Saturday afternoon. Colonel Harvard was an attache to the Russian Army and was captured by the Japanese.

By the will of the late Mrs. Thompson Swan, a legacy of $100,000 was left to the university for the erection of a building for the Graduate School.