THE Nine is in daily practice at the Gymnasium.

THE Yale Seniors have chosen Pach for their photographer.

THE Arion Quartette gave a concert at Lowell last Tuesday.

THE mid-year examinations will begin this year on the 3d of February.

CHRISTMAS books and music can be found in abundance at 3 Stoughton.

Two Harvard graduates are holders of fellowships at John Hopkins University.

THERE will be an examination in Junior Logic on January 25, 1879, at 11 A. M.

THERE will be an examination in Sophomore Required History for the second half-year on January 4, at 11 A. M.

PROFESSOR GOODALE gave last Saturday, in Boston, the first of a series of six lessons to a Normal class in Botany. The class consists chiefly of teachers, and numbers over five hundred.

THE subjects for Commencement Parts are to be handed in on Wednesday, January 8.

THE next number of the Advocate will be ready on the Monday after the recess, January 6.

THOUGH the Freshmen are not tied to any apron-strings, they are much attached to the Pinafore.

THE attendance at the present Art Club Exhibition has been more satisfactory than at the former one.

THE delay in the arrival of the text-books in Phil. 5 is severely testing the moral endurance of the section.

OXFORD has a Rifle Corps which is on the eve of dissolution. The H. R. C. should have a fellow-feeling for it.