THE Index will be published about Thanksgiving Day.

THERE is a movement on foot among the lovers of fencing, to start a club similar to that of last year. It is proposed that one of the unoccupied rooms be obtained for practising in.

LAST Thursday afternoon the Non-Society men of '78 held a meeting for the purpose of finding out the general opinions and wishes among themselves in regard to Class Day. It was unanimously resolved, that at the class meeting a majority of the votes cast should be necessary to secure a candidate's election. In their nominations for class officers the Non-Society men showed a commendable spirit by nominating candidates independently of the sections to which those candidates belonged.

THAT letter-box of which we have heard so much does not appear.

MR. SEVER assures us that he confidently expects that the Catalogue will be ready on Saturday.

MR. NORTON entertained the members of the Art Club at his house last Wednesday evening.

THERE seems to be a very strong probability that the race with Yale will be rowed at New London.

THE first concert of the Sanders Theatre series will be given next Tuesday by the Thomas Orchestra.

YALE declines to play at foot-ball with fifteen men. The prospects of a match with her this year are very slight.

IT is some satisfaction to notice that the Herald has at last acknowledged that the Boston Nine are not altogether correct.

'80 has started a Pigeon Shooting Club. The next event of the season will probably be the appearance of the Beck Hall Coaching Club.

THE second course of Popular Scientific Lectures, under the auspices of the Harvard Natural History Society, will begin in March, 1878.

PROFESSOR LOVERING'S lectures on Physics have begun; we think that many students are not aware of what they are losing by their absence from them.

TACKS should not be driven into the wood-work of Memorial Hall. There are bulletin boards provided on each side of the swinging doors.

THE first ten of the K. N. Society from '81 are, H. S. Ballou, H. Chase, R. Edwards, H. E. Green, F. Hardy, J. S. How, T. P. Ivy, W. C. Lane, G. F. Morse, and J. S. Whiting.

AT the annual convention of the New England College Faculties, which was held at Wesleyan University, last week, Professor C. J. White represented Harvard College. The proceedings of this convention are not made public.

THE proctors in Matthews are either regularly absent or culpably deaf. The result is, that certain Freshmen and other students in that building nightly signalize their escape from necessary restraint by childish racket and disturbance of all kinds.

OF late there has been considerable practice by the undergraduates at the range of the H. U. R. C. in Watertown, and all who are not members and would become candidates for the University Team are requested to join the Club immediately.

THE subjects of the Second Junior Forensic are: 1. Should Colonization be undertaken by the State? 2. Is it an Advantage to England to have no Written Constitution? 3. Is the Presence of Didactic Purpose in a Novel an Element of Strength or Weakness?

THE average daily consumption at Memorial Hall is: Of flour, about two and a half barrels; of milk, one hundred and twenty gallons; of meat, one thousand pounds. Four hundred and fifty pounds of turkey are usually demolished in one dinner, and it takes a barrel of fruit to furnish dessert.

A LECTURE will be delivered by Dr. Brown-Sequard, at the invitation of the Natural History Society, at Sanders Theatre, Wednesday evening, November 14, at 7.30 o'clock. Subject: On the supposed Existence of special Centres for various Movements of the Body. Tickets will be given to all who want them, if applied for at Matthews 4; open daily from 12 to 1 P. M. and from 5 to 6 P. M.

THE regular meetings of the S. Paul's Society have been changed to Wednesday evenings, instead of Monday, as heretofore. Every alternate week a shortened form of service is to be held, followed by a free discussion on religious subjects of interest. It may not be generally known that the Society is open to all Episcopalians in any department of the University, who may wish to join. All students are invited to attend the services. Rooms, 17 Grays. Meetings at 7 P. M.

THE young man of literary pretensions who attributed the inspiration of the lines in the Hanging of the Crane,

"As lamps upon a bridge at night

Stretch on and on before the sight,

Till the long vista endless seems,"

to Charles River Bridge, as seen from the "last car," was probably not aware that Mr. Longfellow spent his college days at Bowdoin and not at Harvard.

LAST Saturday the Freshman Eleven played a game of foot-ball at Andover, against a team from Phillips Academy. During the first three-quarters Phillips had somewhat the advantage, though the Freshman at one time almost succeeded in getting a goal, the ball striking against the cross-piece and bounding back. In the second three-quarters '81 in their turn pressed their opponents; but nothing was gained, and the game ended in a draw. The best players were Eton and Nickerson of the Phillips, and Upham, Morse, and Clark of the Freshman Team. A supper was given to the Freshmen by their opponents.

THE Freshmen are showing a laudable interest in boating. Last Monday night, their captain, Mr. North, called a meeting of the candidates for the crew. About twenty men presented themselves, and agreed to go into training for the winter. The applicants were divided into companies of convenient size, which are to take turns in rowing on the weights in the Gymnasium. From so large a class we may hope to find an excellent crew.

THE following table from Scribner's shows the number of hours per week devoted to the different studies by eleven leading colleges: -

Ancient Mathe- Modern Science Philo- History Fine Tota's.

Langua- matics. Langua- sophy. Arts.

ges. ges.

Classics.

Amherst 21 2/3 10 1/3 9 17 2/3 6 2/3 5 1 1/3 71 2/3

Bowdoin 21 1/3 7 1/3 11 12 1/3 8 1/3 6 0 66 1/3

Cornell 32 12 10 10 10 10 0 84

Dartmouth 20 10 4 12 10 2 0 58

Harvard 64 29 64 68 20 28 18 291

Michigan 28 12 15 32 9 8 0 104

Princeton 30 9 7 15 10 2 0 73

Trinity 23 6 1/2 9 12 1/2 9 4 0 64

Vassar 27 1/2 8 1/2 21 31 1/2 10 2 17 1/2 118

Wesleyan 26 10 11 27 20 5 0 99

Yale 38 17 19 25 14 6 0 119