There are about seventy-five men training for the various crews.

The skating on Fresh Pond is very good.

The Rev. Joseph H. Thayer is at present conducting chapel services.

President Eliot was present at the inauguration of Governor Robinson.

Prof. Libby, of Princeton, has offered a medal for the highest batting average during the coming season.

Prof. Laughlin gave an interesting lecture yesterday in Political Economy 1, on the Census.

Princeton possesses the identical electrical machine used by Dr. Franklin.

The advanced sections of the freshman class have been posted in University.

Sprague, the living skeleton, has disposed of his bones to Harvard Medical College, when he gets through with them.

Prof. John Nichol is preparing a volume of "Essays on English Literature," on, among others, Carlyle, Thackeray, Dickens, Macaulay, Tennynyson and Sidney Dobell.

Mr. W. J. Courthope's "Addison" and Dean Church's "Bacon" will be the next volumes in the "English Men of Letters."

The Volante, published at the University of Chicago, is of the opinion that Wordsworth was the author of "The Old Oaken Bucket."

Mr. Wm. M. Davis, the instructor in geology, will deliver a course of Lectures on Storms, before the Lowell Institute, Boston, commencing on Monday evening next. He will include an account of the workings of the Signal Service.

Bryn Mawr College, the legacy of Dr. J. Taylor of Burlington, N. J. will be opened to students in the autumn of 1885. It will offer to women good college education,

The late Dr. Calvin Ellis, formerly dean of the Medical School has left a large sum of money to his sister which will revert to the college when she dies.

E. Hunt Allen, of the freshman class, whose arm was broken at the boathouse accident, has returned to college.

The book-stack of the new building to be erected for the great public library of Boston, will be constructed on the same general plan as the new wing of Gore Hall.

The Boston University Law School has been compelled to continue its work this term in the old building as the new hall on Beacon Street is not quite completed.

Mr. Maxmilian Reder, an art student of Munich, has arranged an exhibition of photographs etc., in room 151, Young's Hotel. He would like to show his photographs to any one interested in art.

The author of the sketch of Gambetta, lately printed in the Century, has written for the same magazine an article on "The Forty Immortals" of the French Academy, which is accompanied by many portraits.

A dispatch from London says that the resignation of Minister Lowell of the rector ship of St. Andrews is much regretted both by his supporters among the electors and by the officers of the university.

The annual football match between Oxford and Cambridge for 1883-84, was won by Oxford. The play of the "Cantabs" was below the standard of last year, and, while each man played for his own glory, the Oxford men played as a team and without selfishness, winning a comparatively easy victory. The score was, Oxford, Three goals and four tries; Cambridge, one goal. Out of the eleven contests played Oxford has won five, Cambridge two, and four have been drawn.

PLUCK.Prof. Stillman argues from a study of the instantaneous photographs, taken by Mr. Murybridge, that the speed in animals and in men depends on conformation of muscular tissue and "much also on the nervous energy or will transmitted to the muscles, technically known as courage or pluck."