Mr. W. B. Noble, '84, has left college.

The Catalogue of the Institute of Technology will be issued this month.

'85 has a second eight in training for their class crew.

There will be a half hour examination in Greek 7 next Thursday.

Recitations for the three upper classes cease on the 22d of this month.

Oliver Wendell Holmes is preparing a life of Emerson for publication.

The University of Kansas is jubilant over a new laboratory. Ex.

Of the three hundred and sixty colleges in the United States, two hundred are practically match factories. [Ex.

The final list of the semis has been posted. We believe there are no changes.

There will be a very important meeting of the '84, Pi Eta in the rooms tonight at 7.30.

Amherst is said to have the finest collection of birds in any American college.

A Choctaw Indian, who graduates this year at Roanoke College, will give his graduating oration in his native tongue. [Ex.

In accordance with the will of the late Lewis Morgan, $100,000 will go to Rochester University, to be used for the education of women.

The late Mrs. Charles H. Northam of Hartford, Conn., leaves about $100,000 to Trinity College and the Hartford hospital.

Mr. Ruskin is urging the University of Oxford to erect some new buildings for the art workers. He wants something better for them than the cellar now provided the students.

The section in Greek III are beginning the 19th book of Homer's Odyessey.

The Cuneiform Inscription and the Old Testament. Prof. Lyon. Upper Divinity Hall, 12 M. to day.

The mid-year Examination in History 4 will cover Roman History from the time of Tiberius Gracches to the death of Constantine.

We understand that one of the boxing teachers is on the lookout for a heavy weight. We hope for the success of the winter meetings that he finds one.

The election for president of Memorial Hall will take place tonight at dinner. Messrs. Frothingham, '84, and Baldwin, '85, have been nominated for the position.

Mr. Longfellow, a few weeks before his death, is alleged to have replied without hesitation, in answer to the question of whom among the rising American poets he expected most:-"Edgar Fawcett." [Ex.

The will of the late Mr. Hallgarten, a wealthy New York banker, leaves $50,000 to Dartmouth College and a like amount to the University of New York.

The faculty have awarded scholarships to the following freshmen: Brainard, C. F. A. Currier and Craig; Bright scholarships; Stedman, Hartwell and H. Schofield, Bigelow scholarships.

Of Memorial Hall, President Eliot speaks as follows in his annual report: The Dining Association, now one of the established institutions of the University, is very prosperous. The year was begun with an overflowing membership, and more men apply for board than can possibly be accommodated. The average prices of board for the six years of Mr. Balch's service as steward were: $4.48 1-3, $4.03 1-3, $4.06 2-3, $4.11 1-3, $4.46 2-3 and $4.84 2-3. During the third of a year just passed, the first term of Mr. Sullivan's stewardship, the price has been $4.16.

A report from England states that Dr. Charles Waldstein, the young American archaeolisit at Cambridge University, has just been placed in charge of the well-known Fitzwilliam Museu at Cambridge. Dr. Walsdtein has recently made a discovery in connection with Phidian Art, which is described and illustrated in the December number of the Century Magazine.