PRINCETON LETTER.

The mid-year examinations are now attracting the attention of the students and naturally other affairs are not so prominent in the college world. The present examinations prove again the success of the honor system, and it is more and more the settled opinion here that the system is firmly established beyond any question.

The baseball and track men have for some time been working regularly in the gymnasium, and in a week or so active practice will be begun in the cage.

Next week the Junior Promenade will take place in the new Casino. The promenade will be held on the night of February 7, and will be preceded by the Glee Club concert in Alexander Hall. An unusually large number of preliminary dance cards has been issued and the attendance promises to be greater than that for many years past. On the night preceding the promenade, the Baird contest in oratory disputation and poetry will be held in examination. This contest is open to some members of the senior class selected for ability in writing, and the main interest in it is due to the fact that the winner of the oratorical contest is usually appointed to be valedictorian on Commencement Day.

The excellent chances of hearing good music this winter is a source of the greatest satisfaction to large numbers of the men in college. The Kneisel Quartette, from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has given three concerts here before large audiences of professors and students. Two more are yet to be given Under the leadership of Professor Marquand, the faculty chairman of the committee on music, this subject is reciving considerable attention the present year. Professor Marquand and Mr. Alfred S. Baker, of New York, have set on foot a movement looking ultimately to the founding of a school of music, but at present taking the form of a series of symphony concerts. The first concert of this series will be given in Alexander Hall on the evening of February 13. These concerts are to be given by the University Symphony Orchestra of which Mr. Baker is musical director. The first performance will be by a full orchestra of forty musicians selected from the Philharmonic Society of New York. Arrangements have been made for special train service from Trenton, Philadelphia, and New York, and every effort is being put forth to make the event one of the social functions of the season. These concerts to be known as Princeton-Symphonies will doubtless aid much in bringing about a more general appreciation of classical music here, and in establishing the long-wished for school of music.

THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN.