Daniel Pratt has a colleague of a musical turn of mind.

Yale defeated Wesleyan on Wednesday by a score of 46- 0.

The third theme in English 12 will be due on Monday, Nov. 17.

Hour examinations in Mathematics 2 Monday, 11 A. M. in Sever 37.

There will be a one hour voluntary examination in Philosophy 1, at 12 today.

Dr. B. O. Pierce has been made assistant professor of Mathematics and Physics.

A beginners class in Arabic has been formed at Cornell, to recite twice a week.

Two thousand new species of plants have been added to the University Herbarium of Cornell.

President White of Cornell has requested the students not to smoke on the campus or on the college grounds.

Harper's Weekly states that one of the suite of Mr. Kuki, the new Japanese minister at New York, will enter Amherst college.

Mr. C. A. Strong,'85, has been elected a member of the Hasty Pudding Club. Mr. E. F. Weld has been elected an honorary member of the same club.

The Bowdoin college crew was defeated last Saturday by the Dirigo crew of Portland,

Captain Porter desires the freshman eleven and substitutes to be in front of Weld at 11.35 sharp. Each man must provide his own lunch.

The freshmen eleven will be weakened today in their game against Exeter by the loss of Holden and Hurd who are away with the university team in Canada.

The Yale athletic games were held on Wednesday. Rubsamen beat the Yale record for the running broad jump by a jump covering 19 feet 5 inches.

It is rumored that some Freshmen have been buying out Brine's surplus stock of '87 plug hats for the purpose of decorating their rooms. Brave Freshmen!

Several young trees have been planted in front of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory which when grown will hide much of the bare brick wall of that building.

The Clipper comments as follows upon the playing of the '88 eleven in their game against Andover: "The Harvards showed excellent capabilities, but failed to play together, and passed poorly."

There will be a conference of the College Y. M. C. A. Associations held at Syracuse on November 15th and 16th, to exchange views of methods and suggest plans for more successful Christian work in colleges.

The fifth ten of the Institute of 1770 from '87 is as follows: H. A. Buck, Denny, A. N. Rantoul, Griswold, de Gersdorff, Oakes, Keep, F. S. Palmer, Faulkner, Sampson. F. M. Tilden is elected an honorary member.

The Harvard students came very near having another excitement this week, in addition to the political excitements. A student in Chem. 1 put a warm plate and a towel in his desk together, and the towel caught fire. This was luckily discovered by the janitor just before he left the laboratory, or probably there would now be no chemical laboratory at Harvard.