Prof. Macvane has instituted a new method of ascertaining absences, distributing slips at each recitation to be signed by those present.
The Vassar Miscellany thinks a "rush" morally wrong, as no one has a right to injure another and make him unnecessarily uncomfortable.
The sixth ten of the Institute of 1770, is A. C. Coolidge, C. S. Thompson, Wiestling, Morrison, C. C. Foster, W. B. Scofield, Huntington, Harday, Storrow, Zerega.
T. P. Burgess, '87, one of the candidates for the 'Varsity crew and a member of the '87 class eleven, is now playing centre rush on the eleven, and doing good work in the position.
The last number of the "Cornell Era" contains an article entitled "A Peep at Harvard." In this article appears the remarkable piece of news that "recitations are entirely voluntary."
A pennant will be offered by the Base Ball Association next spring to be competed for by nines representing each class of the University. Players on the University nine will be barred out.
All those who wish reduced-rate tickets to New Haven on Saturday, must sign the book at Bartlett's before 10 A. M. this, Friday, morning. It will be impossible to get these tickets at the station, so those who want them must sign at Bartlett's.
"Members of the Yale foot ball team who expect to play their game against Princeton next Thursday are watching and waiting with deep interest for the result of Mr. J. L. Sullivan's test case on the law relating to pugilism." -[Boston Advertiser.
The following have signified their intention of trying for the senior crew: Hansen, Gilman, B. B. Thayer, Sutton, J. E. Thayer. Colony, Harrington, Bemis, Boyden, and several more who are at present candidates for the 'Varsity.
Camplaint is made in the Amherst Student that it costs as much to play billiards in the Gymnaseum as in any of the billiard saloons of the town. The following pathetic cry is raised. "If our spiritual guardians would bring the wandering sinner, who at present revels in the wickedness of the hotel billiard room, back to the fold of the new Gym., the most effectual way in which they can do it is by appealing to the financial interests of the above mentioned wanderer."