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BREVITIES.

CHEMISTRY 3. examination in U. E. R., and not in Boylston.

Tempora mutantur. There are twelve unoccupied rooms in the Yard, among them a Holworthy room.

THE officers of the Signet from '78 are: President, I. Elting; Secretary, E. T. Chamberlain; Treasurer, B. Sachs.

PROFESSOR GOODWIN will continue his reading of the Agamemnon of AEschylus on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, February 6 and 7, at 7 1\2 o'clock.

IF the Faculty would only economize a little more, and have examinations evenings, and on Sunday, the Semiannuals might be cut down to six days.

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JUNIORS intending to anticipate their required Metaphysics will leave examination-books at the Secretary's office on or before Monday, February 19.

A STUDENT in the Divinity School, whose class has just begun reading Genesis in Hebrew, was met on Cornhill inquiring for a pony on that work.

WHO has not remarked the abortive attempt at clearing the paths in the Yard of snow, and who has not remarked, "How dirty! how disgusting!"

THE Advocate, it seems has been taking an unfair advantage of us. A Freshman has refused to subscribe for the Crimson because he prefers to take a weekly paper.

A NEW classical school has been opened at Indianapolis, Ind., by Messrs. T. L. Sewall and William I. Abbott, both graduates of Harvard. The school is patterned after the best Eastern academies, and has already a good number of students.

THE following subjects are among those recently debated by the Oxford Union Society: Moved, That English manias in art, learning, and amusement are barbaric and unwholesome; Moved, That the present or any system of examination is as injurious as it is painful.

ALL persons, Freshmen especially, who live within the limits of Holyoke Club are requested to try for the spring crews. Holyoke Club comprises Holyoke House, Dolton's and Little's Blocks, and from the west side of Holyoke Street to the south side of Mt. Auburn Street.

IT is necessary that students rooming in the College buildings should have letter-box plates on the doors of their rooms, so that their letters can be delivered. The letter-box plates can be obtained from the College letter-carrier for sixty cents each, and they will be put on free of expense by the College carpenter. According to postal regulations, no letters will be delivered under the doors of the rooms after this date without a written order.

A SERIES of popular scientific lectures will be given under the auspices of the Harvard Natural History Society, at the Sanders Theatre, on Thursday evenings. Tickets free: to be obtained of the Secretary, and at the door. The dates and subjects are appended:-

February 22. Professor N. S. Shaler, "Climate of America."

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