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.

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."

March 1. Professor William James, "Recent Investigations on the Brain."

March 8. Professor John McCrady, "Some Things to be learned from Jelly-Fishes."

March 15. Professor C. L. Goodale, "Green Leaves and their Work." Illustrated by diagrams.

March 22. Professor John Trowbridge, "Unseen Motion." Illustrated by experiments.

March 29. Professor J. D. Whitney, "The Great Pyramid." Illustrated by diagrams.

ATTENTION is called to a lecture to be given in the chapel of Christ Church, Cambridge, Tuesday evening, February 13, at 7.45, entitled "The United States Government Expedition to Tasmania to observe the Transit of Venus," to be illustrated by views by John Moran, thrown by a powerful stereopticon upon a large canvas screen. The lecturer will be Mr. Leonard Waldo, Assistant at Harvard College Observatory, who accompanied the expedition as Assistant Astronomer. The lecture will be one of importance to those interested in Astronomy, and yet will be so presented as to amuse and instruct a popular audience. Only 400 tickets are to be issued; 200 have already been secured; the remainder will be for sale at the University Bookstore after Wednesday noon next. The proceeds of this entertainment will be for the benefit of Mission work in Cambridge.