No recitation was held yesterday in History 13.

There was a cut in Political Economy 8 yesterday.

Several men are taking fencing lessons this term.

Colony '85, is a candidate for the University crew.

'87 has won the college championship at Yale, in Lacrosse.

We have received several letters, seconding the proposition of forming a bockey club.

There are thirty schools in Michigan whose diplomas admit to the university of Michigan.

Fianders of the Yale eleven was last week severely injured in practice at New Haven.

The Technology men telegraphed yesterday afternoon that they could not play the foot ball match.

The Index will probably appear about the first of December. Several new features will be introduced.

There will be a written recitation in N. H. 5 to day, not an examination, as stated in yesterday's paper.

The injuries received by Phillips in the Princeton game are more serious than was at first supposed.

Ferris, the sparring master, having recovered from his injury, has resumed his lessons in the gymnasium.

There is a movement at Michigan University to include military drill among the required courses of instruction.

By the efforts of the Rugby association at Michigan University the knowledge of foot ball is being extended among other western colleges. This will give the game a boom in the west.

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.