BREVITIES.

THERE are fourteen men training for the Freshman Nine.

WE publish the Index to Volume X. with this number.

THE last Cambridge Assembly takes place next Wednesday evening.

Mr. Warren N. Goddard, '79, is coaching at present the Freshman Crew.

ALL forensics and theses substituted for forensics must be handed in before May 14.

IN order to count for two forensics, Commencement parts must be handed in before April 7.

W. D. SWAN, '81, ought to be added to the list of men training for the Freshman Crew which was published by the Advocate.

OFFICERS of the K. N. - President, Thomas P. Ivy; Vice-President, I. S. Whiting; Secretary, H. E. Greene; Treasurer, M. H. Morgan.

THERE is soon to be a meeting of the representatives of Yale and Harvard at New London, to decide upon the details of next summer's race.

THE man with a quill pen has appeared in the examination-room. He should be spoken to quietly but firmly by the men on whom he inflicts torture.

CANDIDATES for second-year honors in classics will substitute Ovid's Fasti for Lucan's Pharsalia. The list as corrected stands : Cicero, De Officiis ; Caesar, Civil War ; Virgil, Georgics and AEneid, - Books VII. - XII., inclusive; Ovid, Fasti.

THE officers of the Natural History Society for the second half year are as follows: Professor N. S. Shaler, President; R. W. Greenleaf, and L. F. Woodward, Vice-Presidents; Wm. Wilson, Recording Secretary ; Dr. G. L. Goodale, Corresponding Secretary ; B. Sachs, Treasurer; H. Goldmark, Librarian.

SANDERS THEATRE. The programme for the fourth concert, Tuesday evening, February 12, at 8. Pastoral Symphony, Beethoven, by Thomas's Orchestra; Overture to Midsummer-Night's Dream, Mendelssohn, by the orchestra; Wedding March, Gold-mark, by the orchestra; Scharwenka's new Piano Concerto, - the first time in America, - by Mme. Madeline Schiller. Tickets $ 1.00 ; for sale at the University Bookstore and at the door.

MR. FAULHABER will begin a German reading of Maria Stuart on Monday evening, February 25.

CAPTAIN NORTH has written to Cornell that it will not be practicable for the Freshmen to row a sixoared race, and refers them to his original challenge.

AFTER the last storm it was found that one or two inches of snow had drifted through the transom of Weld. Query: Ought the ornamental in architecture to predominate over the practical ?

THE inscription on the base-ball case, in the Auditor's room of Memorial Hall, is a curious melange: Ex dono '78, '79, '80, January, 1878. The grammatical canon is yet to be found which authorizes such a jumble of Latin, Arabic numerals, and English.

PRESIDENT McCosh, of Princeton College, declares Yale and Harvard "sinfully, nay, almost ruinously expensive," but thinks that "this arises not so much from the demands of the colleges as from the exactions of cliques and classes of students in forming clubs and providing amusements."

MR. W. L. TITUS, 3 Stoughton, is the special retail agent in Cambridge, for the heliotypes published by Houghton, Osgood & Co. These heliotypes include many choice subjects from Correggio, Durer, Land-seer, and others. Specimens may be seen at Mr. Titus's room. The pictures are 19 X 24 inches in size, and retail at one dollar each.

THE number of matriculated students during the present winter at the Prussian University at Berlin is 2839. They are divided among the faculties as follows : theological, 168; legal, 1163; medical, 345; philosophical, 1163. There are 210 foreigners in the list, including 42 from America. Besides these matriculated students, there are 2200 other persons in attendance on the lectures, belonging to the various technical and art schools of the city. The corps of instructors numbers 210, nearly half of whom are in the philosophical faculty.

AN experiment in daily journalism has been made at Yale. The Yale News is a sheet of four pages, which measures nine inches by six, and one of which is given to advertisements. "Our price (5 cents) is somewhat exorbitant," say the editors, who modestly keep their names in the background, "but it will be lowered as soon as we are assured of our financial support." In justification of their "innovation" they urge "the dulness of the times and the demand for news," which latter commodity they apparently propose to manufacture, inasmuch as the Record and Courant are supposed to publish all that happens at Yale.

THE college expenses of the Cornell students cannot be "ruinously extravagant," if the statement which a member of the class of '72 sends the Tribune is accurate: -

His expenses for a single year amounted to $ 184.68. The items in the account current were these : Clothing, $ 19.25 ; literature, $ 21.30 ; postage, $ 3.66; books (text and reference), $ 40.36 ; board, $ 34.06; rent and furniture, $ 37.10 ; car-fare, $ 14.50; washing, $1.59; miscellaneous, $9.56. The year's board bill, it seems, was only $ 34.06 ; and he affirms that he did not starve, but enjoyed perfect health. The members of the labor corps, he says, kept house, bought their own provisions, and cooked their food themselves.

SUBSCRIPTIONS for the University Crew, to February 7 are as follows : -

Subscribed. Paid.

Seniors $ 378.00 $149.00

Juniors 729.50 240.00

Sophomores 864.00 335.00

Freshmen 729.00 325.00

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$2,700.50 $1,049.00