AT the meeting of the Finance Club on Monday evening a paper on "Population" was read, and the subject was discussed. The paper on "The Provisions of the Resumption Act" was postponed until the next meeting, which will be held on January 13. It was voted that members of the Faculty should be admitted to membership on the same terms as undergraduates. A committee was appointed to confer with the Philosophical Society and the Art Club in relation to joining with them in giving a course of lectures.

A SPECIAL meeting of the Overseers of Harvard College was held Tuesday, December 10, Hon. E. R. Hoar, President, in the chair. The following appointments were confirmed: George Russell Briggs, A. B., as tutor in mathematics for three years from September 1, 1878; Sumner Burritt Stiles, A. B., 1876, as Procter. As Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts for one year, from January 1, 1879, William Gray, Henry J. Bigelow, and Thomas G. Appleton. The election of Reginald Heber Fitz as professor of pathological history was referred under the rules to Hon. Messrs. Codman, Wyman, and Green. The Visiting Committee were increased as follows: To visit the observatory, Randolph Coolidge, Charles F. Choate, Alexander Agassiz; to visit the College, George B. Chase; to visit the Library, George Dexter; to visit the Medical and Dental Schools, John T. Codman. The Committee on Reports and Resolutions presented a partial report by Hon. W. G. Russell.

A SOPHOMORE is preparing a key to the hieroglyphics which explain Sophomore themes.

INSTRUCTOR. - Your rendering of the Greek is good, Mr. X., but it sounds too much like the translation.

MR. X. - I never use translations, sir.

INSTRUCTOR. - What, never?

MR. X. - No, never.

INSTRUCTOR. - What, never?

MR. X. - Well, hardly ever. (Fact.)

THE critic in the Saturday Review little thought what distress he would cause among our "very English" students when he wrote the following about Professor Hill's Rhetoric: "Into the higher arts, whether of oratorical or literary expression, the author scarcely pretends to guide his pupils; and it is needless to say that American tastes in both departments differ so widely from those of the best English speakers and writers, that no aspirant to success in this country would look for instruction to a professor even of Harvard College."

POSITIVISM AND EVOLUTIONISM.

Instructor. What does Condillac say about brutes in the scale of being?

Student. He says a brute is an imperfect man.

Instructor. And what is man?

Student. Man is a perfect brute.