The award for the best oration in the contest for the Leffingwell prize at Amherst has been awarded to W. H. Wood, of Grand Rapids, Mich., whose subject was "Political Corruption."

The first one of the "double decked" electric cars, soon to run between Cambridge and Boston, made its trial trip yesterday.

The president of the West End Street Railway Company has stated to the Mayor of Cambridge that the company is ready to go ahead with the work preparatory to running a line of cars over the Harvard Bridge.

Albert F. Holden, cagtain of the 'varsity eleven '88, Lloyd McKim Garrison '91, and J. Wendell Jr., '91, have been recently elected to the Harvard Club of New York. There are now over 600 members, and the question of building a club house is being agitated.

Since the game at Springfield the idea has been prevalent in Cambridge that we were outcheered by Yale. This impression holds, doubtless, because we could not correctly estimate the volume of our own cheering. The following from the Princetonian takes a different view of the matter: "For once Yale allowed herself to be out-cheered, and that by Harvard at Springfield. This was accomplised by better organization, by better leaders, and the students doing their part in every instance."