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committee of award is to be selected by the contestants and their names given to the Editor-in-Chief, who shall have charge of the contest and shall decid e as to who have fulfilled the . conditions and are entitled to try for the prize . We hope a great many of the students will try for this prize. Let no one be discouraged because poetry and fiction are combined. Maybe if your poem is somewhat poor your story will be very much better than any other or vice versa. Please do not put off the matter of writing, for you will find more demands made upon your time as the session advanc es. So begin now to work on your pieces for this contest. Either the story or the poem must be submitted to the Editors before the first of February and the other must follow by the first of April. The award will be made at Commencement. REOENT Progress is the word that has been tacked IMPROVEMENTS.to the masthead of our old ship of learning and adopted as the motto of her officers and crew. Under the wise supervision of her (B) boatwright the old ship is being remodelled and is becoming more modern in type ; she is being enlarged to meet the demands made upon her by the ever-increasing number of passengers who cross her gangway as she is about to start on her annual voyage, and is being fitted to offer better accommodations to those aboard her during her cruise. But let us pass from the figurative to the plain; from the general to the specific, and note some of these many improvements. These we will divide into two classes: those that pr ovide for better physical development, and those th at help to a fuller training of the intellect. Under the first class let us note two advances: On entering the gymnasium we find that it has .been provided with additional apparatus and that a more convenient dressin g-room has been arranged. As a result of these additions th ere seems to be more interest felt in gymnasium work, and the classes seem to be more largely attended than ever before.
