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BREVITIES.

THE next Sanders Concert will take place on January 17.

THE President's report will be ready for distribution next week.

BEEFSTEAK for breakfast at Memorial Hall under the new regime.

THE Freshmen have voted to challenge Yale to row in an eight-oar.

THE report that Professor Ames intends removing to Texas is untrue.

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AT present there are 370 members of the Memorial Hall Dining Association.

THE report that the Law School is to be moved to a location near the Lawrence Scientific School is untrue.

THE telegraph company have so far reduced their rates, that the tariff to Boston for ten words is but fifteen cents.

THE examination for conditions in Sophomore Astronomy has been postponed, and will probably take place on Monday afternoon next.

PROFESSOR WILLIAM EVERETT has been appointed lecturer in Classical Literature for the current year.

BOATING-MEN now make their trip to the Union on skates instead of in the old fashion.

THE postman recommends all who desire to have their mail delivered at their rooms, to have their doors so arranged that it is possible to slip a letter beneath them.

AN examination for making up conditions in Political Economy and Constitution of the United States will be held on Saturday, January 20, at 11 o'clock A. M., in U. E. R.

THE Everett Athenaeum have decided to change their present rooms for larger and more commodious ones in Whitney's Block. The change will be made in about three weeks.

THE work of the Library is being rapidly pushed on. The architect seems to have endeavored to make the addition as little in keeping with the rest of the building as possible.

THE Index is now ready. The advertisements have been banished to the end of the volume, and the general list of the students has been given the last, instead of the first place.

AN examination to anticipate Junior and Sophomore Rhetoric will take place on Saturday, January 13, at 11 A. M. Text-books: Whately's Rhetoric, Parts I. and II.; Lessing's Laocoon.

EXAMINATIONS for making up conditions will be held in U. E. R. as follows: Modern and Physical Geography on January 12, at 4 1/2 P. M.; French on January 13, at 11 A. M.; Physical Science at 12 M. on January 13.

LEBARON, the policeman who has distinguished himself on several occasions by brutal and unjustifiable attacks on students, has been dropped from the Cambridge Police Department, to the great satisfaction of all respectable persons.

THE theatricals in aid of the H. U. B. C., which were to have been given in town, this week, by graduates, have been postponed; but the performance will probably take place immediately after the semiannuals, that is, about the first of March.

EVENING READINGS. - Professor Norton will resume his Readings of Dante, on Tuesdays. Mr. Cook will read Goethe's "Faust" and Reinecke Fuch's, beginning Thursday, January 11. The Readings are held in Harvard Hall, from 7 1/2 to 9 P. M.

THE state of the walks in the Yard suggests the idea that the persons who have charge of them mean to answer in the affirmative the poet who asks:

"Has earth a clod

Its Maker meant not should be trod

By man, the image of his God,

Erect and free?"

THERE is a rumor current, that, on his entrance upon office, the new steward of Memorial Hall requested of his predecessor a copy of the bill-of-fare by which, during the late regime, the table had been regulated; a request which the latter refused to comply with, unwilling to give over into the hands of a rival a work which he had been more than two years in perfecting. The students fully support Mr. Farmer in this decision.

DR. DERBY, who is to examine the eyes of the Freshmen for the purpose of comparing their present state with their condition four years from now, will resume his work next Monday. He will meet members of the class in 4 Lawrence Hall, at the following hours:-

Gillette to Hanscom, January 15, 10 - 11 A. M.

Kenneson to Merrick, January 15, 12 - 1 P. M.

Merrill to C. H. Morse, January 15, 1 1/2 - 2 1/2 P. M.

Mould to H. M. Perry, January 15, 9 - 10 A. M.

Peters to Roosevelt, January 15, 11 - 12 A. M.

Russak to H. R. Shaw, January 15, 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 P. M.

Thomsen to Watson, January 15, 3 1/2 - 4 1/2 P. M.

Further appointments will be made later.

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