THE first of Professor Norton's course of readings from Dante took place last Thursday evening. The first two readings are from Vita Nuova, as introductory to the Divina Commedia. The readings will continue every Thursday evening in Harvard Hall.
THE success of the H. H. Graduate entertainment at Salem has resulted in many pressing invitations, both personal and through the Salem press, for a second visit. It is probable, we learn, that the graduates will accept.
JUNIOR Themes due this month: April 11, Section IV.; April 18, Section I.; April 25, Section II.
Junior Forensics due this month: April 11, Section II.; April 18, Section III.
ALL members of the Dining-Hall Association intending to go into training this spring who would like to join an eight-dollar training table at the Hall, with dinner at one (or thereabouts), and a late tea, will please leave their names at the Auditor's office at once.
WE are requested to state that as soon as the repairs on the boat-house are finished, no one will be admitted who is not a member of the University Boat Club. Any one wishing to join the club can do so by calling at 30 Thayer. Old members can obtain keys at the same place.
THE following books have been left in the Gymnasium, and await their owners: 1 Chauvenet's Geometry; 1 Peirce's Geometry; 1 Chauvenet's Trigonometry; 1 Maclean's Horace; 1 Campbell's Rhetoric; 1 Johnson's Herodotus; 2 Todhunter's Algebras; 1 Smith's Greece.
IT is reported that an association has been formed in college, the members of which style themselves "The Highland Flings." This association will appear, on April 11, in short socks and Scottish kilts. Students may register their names, and see specimens of plaids at 25 Holworthy.
FOR the purpose of identification, and to prevent the intrusion of unauthorized persons, it is ordered that all students of the University shall, upon their first visit to the Gymnasium, exhibit to the Superintendent the Bursar's certificate.
CHARLES W. ELIOT, President.THE subscription-list for the University crew shows, up to the 6th April, the following results:-
Subscribed. Paid.
Class '76 . . $187.00 $40.00
Class '77 . . 569.00 200.00
Class '78 . . 626.00 141.00
Class '79 . . 823.50 236.50
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$2,205.50 $617.50
TRUMAN HEMINWAY, Assistant Treasurer.FOR the benefit of those who have electives in French, and others, we insert the following: The French Dramatic Company is to give eight evening representations and four matinees, at Beethoven Hall, commencing April 18. Subscription price for the course, $15. Subscription-list open at Schoenhof and Moeller's, 40 Winter Street, until April 15. The plays will chosen be from the following list: Le Demi-Monde, Les Pattes de Mouche, Les Crochets du pere Martin, Les Domestiques, Monsieur Alphonse, Les Femmes Terriribles, Le Testament de Cesar Girodot, La Petite Marquise, Le Sphinx, Le Marquis de Villemer, Quete a Domicile, Les Deux Sourds, Les Brebis de Parnurge, etc.