Harper Brothers announce a new book, "Mothers in Council." It is not, we understand a Princeton Faculty meeting.-(Yale Record.
The gymnasium at Tufts, although now completed, still remains unused owing to the unsettled condition of the rules which are to govern its use.
The graduate foot ball team plays Yale tomorrow. The team as made up for to-morrow's game consists of ten Yale graduates, and one Princeton graduate, Moffatt.
The excursion in N. H. 8 to day, will leave Harvard square, corner of Brighton street, at 1.15 P. M. The section will walk to the Allston station and take the train for Auburndale.
The captain of the Bank Clerks' team of St. John, N. B. collided with another player of the opposing team, a picked fifteen in a foot ball game last week, and suffered an injury to the spinal cord, so that he died on the evening of the next day.
Tufts College has been without gas ever since it was founded. The students are now delighted by the fact that the Cambridge Gas Light company is rapidly laying pipes up to the hill, and that they will undoubtedly all be laid before cold weather arrives.
The Yale Courant says that Princeton foot ball teams always single out the smallest man among their opponents and "lay" for him. This doubtless refers to the Harlan-Twombly episode at the Polo grounds last year. We would also like to know the size of Peters.-[Princetonian.
The Princetonian is making a bold strike for three weeks vacation at Christmas instead of two. It speaks of "Harvard, Yale, and other colleges which give three weeks vacation at Christmas-tide." We would like to inform the Princetonian that Harvard is the last place it should mention to get authority for long vacations, Ten days is the length of our Christmas vacation: one day the length of the so called "Thanksgiving recess."
The Institute of Technology is to have a very large exhibit at the New Orleans fair. The exhibit will consist of specimens of work done by the students in wood and metal turning, in forging and casting, in mechanical, architectural and topographical drawings, manuscript books explaining the systems and methods employed in the various departments of the institution, and many other things too numerous to mention.