JARVIS FIELD will not be ready for ball-playing next spring. All ball matches will be played in town. The Common will be the practice-ground.
A RED FLAG, fifteen feet long, with Harvard in black letters stamped upon it, has been presented to the University Boat Club for the boat-house.
ANOTHER sign of degeneracy! The directors of the Reading-Room have subscribed for the New York Sun and the Chicago Times, - two papers always excluded by their more staid predecessors.
THE candidates for the University crew are, in '77, Legate and LeMoyne; '78, Loring, LeMoyne, Harding, Littauer, Raymer, Kessler; '79, Jacobs, Brigham, Schwartz, Crocker, Smith, Preston, Conlen, and Brewster.
THE Boston Journal of Monday copied from the Advocate the vote taken in the Senior class on Presidential preferences, in which Hayes had a majority, but forgot to insert the vote on Governor, in which Adams took the lead.
THE NINE will play no more matches this autumn. Gymnasium practice is to begin at once. All members of the Freshman or upper classes who wish to try for the position of catcher are requested to call at 12 Matthews.
EVENING READINGS. The course for this year will be held at 7 1/2 o'clock in Harvard Hall, up stairs, and as follows: Fridays, Prof. Everett, Lucretius; Wednesdays, Prof. Palmer, The Odyssey from Book 19; Thursdays, Prof. Bocher, Moliere.
THE Executive Committee H. U. B. C., together with the captains of the clubs, have voted to consider that first crews are entered for the four-oared race. The six-oared race will be made up of second crews. The fall races will be over the Charles River course.
THE Freshmen held a class-meeting yesterday afternoon, at which Mr. Shillito presented his resignation as captain of the crew. Mr. A. W. Hooper was then elected to that position. At the conclusion of the proceedings Mr. Bradley, the chairman, proposed the class cheer, which met with an enthusiastic response.
AT a meeting of the Harvard Rifle Club the following officers were elected: President, W. E. Russell, '77; Secretary, M. Bull, '77; Field-Committee, W. B. Bacon, '77, F. T. Brown, '77, - Powell, '79. It was voted to reduce the initiation fee from five to three dollars, and to open the club to all members of the University paying the initiation fee and signing the constitution.
THE Junior class have elected J. A. Mead and C. Moore directors of the Memorial Hall Dining Association for the ensuing year. The class unanimously adopted the following resolution: Resolved, That our directors be instructed to use every means in their power to procure the dismissal of the present steward at the earliest moment possible.
THE torchlight procession, in which some of the students will participate by invitation of the Cambridge Ward One battalion, will take place on Thursday next. The line will be formed, if possible, on Temple Street, in Boston, at 7 o'clock, the members of each class rallying around the standard which bears its number. Horse-cars will be in readiness at half past six to convey the students to the place of formation. Torches will be delivered by the authorities of Ward One after 4 o'clock on the day of the parade. All students wishing to secure a place in the procession must give timely notice to the marshals. No political signification must be attached to this battalion as regards the College, for all the men who march will do so under the auspices of the Cambridge Republican Committee.
Law School.PROFESSOR CHARLES S. BRADLEY was Chief Justice of Rhode Island.
A RUMOR is afloat that the Case-system of instruction is to be dropped.
THE students are requested to use black ink or pencil in taking notes.
MR. ABBOTT LAWRENCE has been elected Speaker of the Assembly. There will be debates every Friday night, which undergraduates are invited to attend.
Notice to Seniors.REPRESENTATIVES of the various portions of the Senior class met yesterday afternoon, and decided upon the following preliminary arrangements for the election of Class and Class-Day officers. It was agreed that the meeting of the class should be called for Wednesday, November 1st; that nominations for the various offices should be made at any time on or before Monday, October 30th, to C. M. Barnes, Matthews 39, chairman of a committee on nominations, consisting of four members, - one each from the different portions of the class. Nominations must be signed by at least one member of the Senior class.