THERE will be no meeting of the H. P. C. to-night.

THE second edition of the Crimson, No 3, is now ready.

AMHERST predicts an easy (?) victory for Harvard. Many thanks.

THE next number of the Advocate will come out on next Tuesday afternoon.

THE Hasty Pudding Club Theatricals have been postponed until next Tuesday, November 26.

THE Freshman who derives Bursar from booe is advancing in a knowledge of German and in experience.

THE postman requests that the Secretaries of the different societies leave their addresses at the Post-Office.

MR. W. R. TAYLOR, '77, is preparing the Harvard Index this year, and expects to have it ready early in December.

MR. FELTON, '79, has been elected into the O. K. to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. McLennan.

WELLESLEY'S latest conundrum: Why are the Juniors so fond of the Freshmen? Ans. Because they are eighty, too.

THE Thanksgiving Recess will begin at 1 P. M. on Wednesday, November 27, and end at 11 A. M. on Friday, November 29.

THE Geological Section of the Natural History Society will hereafter meet on Tuesday, instead of Thursday evenings.

THE Faculty have given special permission that there should be theatricals given in Boston by the students for the benefit of the Boat Club.

THE next debate in English 6 is fixed for Thursday, December 5. Subject: Was Sir Philip Francis "Junius"? Members of the College will be admitted.

THE statue of Josiah Quincy, former President of the University, which is now standing in Memorial Hall, is the work of Mr. W. W. Story, and is the gift of Mr. Thomas G. Appleton and others.

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.

AT five minutes to two, Tuesday afternoon, an alarm was sounded from box 59, and the cry was heard that Memorial Hall was on fire. Several recitations were dismissed at once, and nearly the whole College turned out to see the conflagration. Five engines and several members of the Faculty appeared on the spot. The excitement abated when it was found that the smoke was caused by the fuel used in the furnaces.

THE following table shows the sizes of the classes during the past four years:-

1875-76. 1876-77. 1877-78. 1878-79.

Sen., 148 192 168 200

Jun., 194 175 208 174

Soph., 182 222 198 218

Fresh., 252 232 239 227

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Total, 776 821 813 819

THE S. Paul's Society will distribute to the poor of Cambridge any cast-off clothing or other contributions which students may give for that purpose. Contributors sending word to the "Charity Committee" of the society at 17 Grays, and stating when they will be at their rooms, will be waited upon by the messenger of the Committee. All members of the University are cordially invited to the evening services of the society on Wednesdays-at 7, and to the afternoon services on Fridays from 520 to 5.30.

THE second forensic of the first half of the Senior Class is due on the first Tuesday in January. Subject: "Is Conscience Infallible?" References: Hodgson's "Theory of Practice," Grote's "Moral Ideals," Cobbe's "Intuitive Morals," Stewart's "Active and Moral Power," Butler's "Ethical Discourses," "Treatises on Moral Philosophy" (Stewart's, Paley's, Wayland's, Hopkins's Peabody's). The second half of the class hand in their forensic on the second Tuesday in January. Subject: "Does an oath enhance one's obligation to tell the truth or to keep a promise?" References: (affirmative) most of the books named above; (negative) Barclay's "Apology," Bates's "Doctrines of the Friends," Dymond's "Principles of Morality," Peabody's "Moral Philosophy."

A MEETING will be held at 22 Beck Hall, on Monday, November 25, at 8 P. M., for the purpose of organizing a Freshman Lacrosse Club. All members of '82, interested, are requested to attend.

AT a meeting of the graduates and present members of the Nine, held in Boston on Thursday, November 7, addresses were made by President Ernst and Captain Thayer, which were enthusiastically received, the prospects for the coming year were fully discussed, and regarded as extremely promising. Robert Winsor, '80, was unanimously elected Captain to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Wright. Jireh Swift, '79, was elected Manager for the coming year.

ON Wednesday, the 13th inst., the Freshmen Eleven played their third match of the season, at Andover, against the Phillips Academy Eleven. The game was very close during the first "three-quarters," '82 getting one touch-down through good passing and a fine rush by Crehore. In the next "three-quarters," Crehore and Manning each secured two touch-downs; and from one of them a goal was kicked. Sedgwick kicked a goal from the field, thus making the score two goals and four touch-downs for '82, to nothing for Andover. The playing of Crehore, Manning, Sedgwick, and Williams for '82 was good, and the team as a whole played in much better form than at Quincy.

On a Law Pill.They nicknamed him "Necessity."

Fit appellation! For

You've heard the proverb old which says,

"Necessity knows no Law."

THE report of the Auditor of the Dining Association for October and the last five days of September is as follows:-

Dr.

Bills paid $14,080.10

Water charge 32.91

Interest on debt 279.35

Interest on advances 88.52

Reduction of debt 166.67

Insurance (estimated) 20.00

Summer repairs 175.00

Crockery assessment 134.56

Sunday absences 308.10

Stock on hand Sept. 26th 337.34

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$15,622.55

Cr.

Stock on hand Nov. 1st $1,451.08

Sale of grease 92.42

Sale of swill 39.50

Sale of bones 37.58

Sale of cold food etc. 76.54

Extra dishes ordered 433.30

Repairs charged to surplus 215.32

Crockery 260.14

Balance 13,016.67

$15,622.55

This gives the cost of board $4.00. The board for the corresponding time in 1875 was $4.60; in 1876, $4.50; and in 1877, $4.30 per week.

THE famous English mutton-chops continue a specialty at Whitney's Equitable Building. They are served without extra charge to the students of the University in the handsomely furnished "Harvard Room," which is reserved exclusively for their use.