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BREVITIES.

A NEPHEW of Col. Ingersoll has been severely hazed at Cornell.

A LARGE bulletin-board has been placed in the hall of Holyoke House.

ONLY about twenty-five votes were cast on Tuesday by undergraduates of the College.

PRESIDENT ELIOT will preside at the dinner of the Boston Latin School Association, November 13.

THE Crimson is for sale regularly on the day of publication in the Auditor's office at Memorial Hall.

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DR. EVERETT is going to repeat his Lowell Institute Lectures on Latin Poetry at the Hawthorne Rooms.

PROFESSOR GURNEY has returned from Europe. It is to be hoped that he will have one of the History courses next year.

PROFESSOR PALMER will read Books IX. and X. of the Odyssey at Harvard Hall, beginning Wednesday evening, November 13.

THE election returns were announced on Tuesday evening at 3 Stoughton, by means of telephone communication with the Boston telegraph offices.

MR. GEORGE RIDDLE is giving a course of six readings from Shakespeare at the Hawthorne Rooms in Boston. They take place on Friday afternoons.

THE Fall Meeting of the Tufts College Athletic Association took place on Wednesday. On account of the poor condition of the track no good time was made.

THE Cambridge Germans will take place on November 21, December 19, January 23, and February 20, at Mr. Brewster's Hall, corner of Brattle and Sparks Streets.

SOPHOMORE fourth division Latin: "Telephum dives et lasciva puella occupavit," - "The rich and lascivious young maiden grasped the telephone." Mr. J. is reseated. - Courant.

TICKETS to the Art Club Exhibition of Etchings, which will take place in a few weeks, can be obtained from the officers of the club. Season tickets will be for sale at the exhibition-room.

WATCHMEN'S boxes have been placed on all the College buildings. They are so constructed that the watchman must wind them up at certain prescribed intervals during the night or they will record his negligence.

MR. J. W. WHITE met candidates for Second-Year Honors in classics this afternoon at three o'clock in U. 16, to explain the conditions on which honors are granted, and to answer any questions.

Now that permission has been given to have Theatricals in Boston, there ought to be no difficulty in raising all the funds that the Crew require, especially as the graduates have provided for $10,000 already.

PERHAPS those who intend to write on the third subject given out for the third Junior Forensic would like some good definition of the Bible, so here is Daniel Pratt's: "The Bible is a vocabulary of invisible images."

BATHS. - Persons who wish to subscribe for the use of the bath-tubs in the south basement of Matthews can do so at 40 M. Hot and cold water. A man will be kept constantly, and clean rooms and tubs can always be found.

THERE is very little that is really original in literature. That apparently most original song, "Whoa, Emma," is, after all, only an expansion of Dr. Holmes's idea:-

"Think, think, thou cruel Emma,

When thou shalt hear my woe,

And know my sad dilemma,

That thou hast made it so.'"

CORNELL ought to be satisfied, now that she has an opportunity to show the boasted superiority of her oarsmen. It is not a Freshman Crew that she will have to meet this time, however.

THE three final games in the tennis tournament, between Messrs. Van Rensselaer, '79, and Kane, '82, resulted as follows: first, won by Kane, D. S.; second, won by Van Rensselaer, 6 - 3; third, won by Kane, 6 - 1.

THE provisional assignment of Commencement parts is as follows: Orations, Hale, Swayze, Crawford; Dissertations, Macfarlane, Case, Andrews, Hills, Hyde; Disquisitions, Patten, Thayer, R. W. Ellis, Faunce, Poor, Sylvester, Schofield, Dalzell, G. M. Burrill, Newhall, Porter, F. Brewster, Atherton, Almy, Lawrence, J. A. Brown, Keyes, Madden, H. Butler, W. E. Smith; Essay, Taussig.

THE new Library Bulletin has appeared. Since last June a large number of books has been added to the Library. Professor Norton continues his manuscript notes on the Authorities for the Life and Works of Michelangelo, and Mr. Winsor begins a Bibliography of the earlier editions of Shakespeare's poems. Professor Holden of the Washington Observatory contributes a list of books and memoirs on the transit of Mercury.

A LETTER has been received from the Secretary of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association saying that the prizes, of which Harvard is entitled to four, will be ready at the end of the present month.

THE third match with the Medford team resulted in a defeat for us of 240 to 244. The match for the championship cup of the H. U. R. C. takes place Friday, 15th, at Watertown. The Handicap match for a prize cup is to take place at Watertown range on Thursday, November 14.

THE Cambridge Assemblies will take place on Thursday, December 5, January 9, January 30, and February 13, at the Armory on Brattle Square; this hall is far better than either the Lyceum or Union, being larger than the one and more neatly and elegantly fitted up than the other.

ON Tuesday last the H. U. R. C. in a match with the Wakefields were beaten by a score of 187 to 180. The teams were composed of five on a side.

HARVARD TEAM.

Powel 3 4 3 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 - 37

Denny 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 - 38

Lee 3 3 2 3 3 3 4 5 4 4 - 34

Russell 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 - 38

Simpson 3 4 4 4 0 3 4 3 4 4 - 33

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Total 180

WAKEFIELD TEAM.

Ogilvie 3 3 4 4 4 5 4 5 4 5 - 41

Corcoran 4 4 3 2 4 3 0 3 3 5 - 31

Paul 3 4 4 3 5 4 4 4 3 3 - 37

Walker, Capt. 5 3 4 5 4 4 3 4 3 4 - 39

Daniel 4 4 4 3 4 3 5 5 4 2 - 39

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Total 180

SUMMARY OF ROUNDS.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Harvard 15 19 17 20 15 18 20 20 18 18 - 180

Wakefield 19 18 19 17 22 19 16 21 17 19 - 187

4 3 5 2 9 10 6 7 6 7 - 7

The lowness of the scores was partly due to a gusty wind that blew very hard across the range.

WILLIAM J. is the English for Wilhelmj.

THE following are the subjects for the third Junior Forensics:-

1. Are there any differences between prose and poetry other than those of rhythm and metre?

2. Can we detect any of the political, ethical, or philosophical opinions of Shakespeare in the utterances of his characters or the construction of his plots?

3. Should the Bible be regarded as a single book, or as literature?

4. In Sophocles' play of Antigone, what should Creon have done?

5. Do the political circumstances of Germany favor literary development?

6. In comparing the characteristics of English and French novelists, are there any excellences which can fairly be called national?

Scratch Races.Saturday, Nov. 9, at 11.15 A. M. Boat-house Course.

ORDER OF EVENTS.

1. Canoe Race (handicap), 11.15 A. M.

2. Six-oared Race, 11.30 A. M.

3. Junior Scullers' Race, 12.00 M.

4. Freshman Sixes, 12.15 P. M.

5. Senior Scullers' Race (handicap, limit 6 seconds), 12.45 P. M.

6. Four-oared Race, 1.15 P. M.

Entry-book at the University Bookstore. Entrance-fee, 50 cents, payable in advance, - returned to any one who is not drawn.

Any crew more than five minutes late will not be allowed to start. Entries close at 8 o'clock to-night.

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