PRINCETON LETTER.

PRINCETON, N. J., Jan. 14, 1895.

College re-opened January 2, after the Christmas holidays, during which time the University Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs took the usual trip. This year a series of concerts was given throughout the South and was pronounced a great success. The result of the intercollegiate chess tournament, from a Princeton standponint, was not up to the expectation of those in college who took an interest in it. While appreciating the fact of Harvard's superiority, it was extremely unfortunate that one of Princeton's substitutes was forced to play.

The Catalogue for 1895-96 was issued last week and shows the number of students to be 1088, a decrease of 21 from last year. The general summary gives the number of Fellows as 7, in the Graduate Department 119, the academic students as 574, and 338 in the Scientific School. In the classification by states, Pennsylvania leads with 307 students, New Jersey is next with 249 and New York third with 165. A number of new courses have been added and in the faculty there are several changes and additions. The entrance requirements in English are greatly increased in an effort to remedy the general defect in thit branch.

During the past week arrangements have been completed whereby the annual Princeton-Columbia track games are to be held in Princeton this year for the first time. The new 220 yerds straight-away now being completed makes the athletic field more suitable for such meetings.

A souvenir book of Alexader Hall, the new assembly building, is to be issued, giving descriptions of the various parts of the interior and interpreting the statuary and carving of the exterior. A life-size statue of Dr. McCosh, carved from red sandstone is now being completed at the studio of J. Massey Rhind in New York, and will be placed in a prominent position in Alexander Hall.

The announcement last week of the arrangement of a series of five games in baseball between Princeton and Harvard is received here with great satisfaction and the management is backed up fully by undergraduate sentiment as the advantages are evidently manifold although, on account of the same arrangement with Yale, ten important games are scheduled.

The preliminary arrangements for the Harvard-Princeton debate are rapidly being made, the preliminary debate taking place next Friday. Heretofore only undergraduates were eligible representatives but, since no restricting rule could be agreed upon, Princeton, for the first time, has allowed graduate students to enter the preliminary debate.

THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN