THE new Gymnasium will be finished in March if the weather permits the workmen to get the roof on before the first heavy fall of snow. If not, the interior will not be finished until next summer.

A MEMBER of the Corporation says that when the Gymnasium is done. Harvard College will have the finest Athletic Department of any college in the country.

THE quality of the board at Memorial has improved somewhat.

MR. F. W. SYLVESTER, an Amherst graduate, is giving instruction in Takigraphy. It is said to be specially adapted to the wants of students.

TO-MORROW the long-mooted question in regard to supremacy on the Foot-Ball field between Yale and Harvard will be decided. Don't fail to attend; admission only fifty cents. Game begins at 2.30; Boston grounds.

A HARSH comment was made on the Princeton-Harvard game last Saturday by the man who said that the Harvard team seemed to think there were not enough spectators on the benches, so they stopped playing to watch the game.

THE Senior Class Theatricals will take place on the evenings of December 12 and 13 and on the afternoon of December 14, at Union Hall, Boylston Street, Boston. There will be two changes of programme in the three performances. The Glee Club have kindly consented to sing between the acts on each evening.

"NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 30. Yale University voted to-night to sustain E. P. Livingstone in his challenge to Goddard, Harvard's single sculler. Previously, Yale University Boat Club refused to entertain Goddard's challenge as to the University, and Livingstone's challenge is therefore personal. - Herald.

A FINANCE Club has just been started by some of the members of the two courses in Political Economy. Several professors have expressed their approval of the project, and the President has given permission to use the recitation-room in Massachusetts. Mr. Thorp, '79, has been elected President, and Mr. Hart, 80, Secretary.

THE privilege of voluntary recitations is extending through different departments of the University. The Freshman class at the Bussey Institute has been informed by the Dean that he need not feel obliged to attend all the lectures, and if the hours assigned do not suit him the Faculty will make any reasonable changes. Field work will begin in the spring.

THE well-known Mr. Fair, of Nevada, honored the college by a visit last week, and the hospitality of several societies was gladly extended to him. The monotony of life here is so rarely broken by the visits of really distinguished men, that when such a prominent gentleman as Mr. Fair comes among us the event is regarded with great interest and remembered with satisfaction.

THE following are the subjects for the third Junior Theme, A Division:-

1. The effect of purely intellectual pursuits upon the emotions.

2. The moral effect on the laboring classes of labor-saving machines.

3. The effect upon literature of the recent development of the newspaper and the periodical.