Marks are out in Greek I.

The University of Virginia proposes to send a crew to Lake George next summer.

Prof. E. C. Pickering of the Harvard Observatory will read a paper on "Mountain Observatories" in Boston next Wednesday evening.

The Pierian dinner will take place at Young's at 7 P. M. tonight. All who wish to go but have not yet signed are requested to leave their names at No. 8 or 14 Weld.

At a meeting of the trustees of Tufts College in Boston, Tuesday, a bequest of $10,000 from Miss Mary Blake of Kingston, N. Y., was announced, and a committee was appointed to consider the expediency of opening the college to women.

The New York Sun says Harvard had 319 undergraduate students in 1853, of whom only thirty were returned as church members, while among the present 928 there are said to be 300 professed Christians. A graduate who is a resident of Cambridge says: "One wearies sometimes of hearing the perpetual outcries against immoralities of Harvard undergraduate life. It seems as though exaggerations must have occurred in some of these stories."

The second of Yale's winter meetings was held Saturday. '83 won the tug-of-war from '84 by three inches after a close struggle. The other events were: vaulting, in which the record made was 6 ft. 7 in.; horizontal bar; standing high jump, won by Brooks, '85, 4 ft. 7 1/4 in.; rope climbing; high kick, 8 ft. 5 in.; running high jump, also won by Brooks, 5 ft. 1/2 in.; fencing; light-weight sparring; closing with an exhibition of sparring between W. C. Camp and H. Knapp.

The annual reunion of the Harvard, Boston University and Providence Alumni chapters of the fraternity of Beta Theta Pi was held last Thursday at Providence, under the auspices of the Brown University Chapter. Representatives were also present from the University of California, Asbury University of Indiana, Johns Hopkins University of Maryland and Denniston University of Ohio. The enjoyment of the evening was still further hightened by the presence of Hon. Schuyler Colfax, an enthusiastic member of the fraternity, who replied to a toast in a manner appropriate to the occasion. Other replies were made by representative mem.

The Union Boat Club has decided to give a spring regatta for the Eastern championship, open to all amateur clubs in New England, on Monday, June 18, when the tide on Charles River will serve between 9 and 11 o'clock in the forenoon. There will be racing in singles, doubles, fours and other classes of boats, and the intention is to have straightaway as well as turning races, the former to be at the National Association distance, 1 1/2 miles.

Among the past members of the Pierian Sodality, since noted in musical circles, are John S. Dwight, formerly editor of Dwights' Journal of Music; Mr. Apthrop, the well-known musical writer; George L. Osgood, who was conductor of the society; Frank D. Millet, whose fame now rests on his skill with the brush, while in college he won fame by his skilful handling of the drum-sticks; Hon. Robert C. Winthrop and Mr. E. H. Hastings, now manager of the Bijou Theatre, who played what in the society is familiarly called the "bull fiddle." The oldest living member is Gen. Henry K. Oliver (of the class of 1818) ex-mayor of Salem.

The sum of $60,000 has been bequeathed to the University of Pennsylvania by the will of the late Henry Seybert to establish a chair in mental and moral philosophy.