THERE are still fourteen men training for the University Nine.

THE H. R. C. will elect battalion officers Monday evening, March 4.

THE Cornell Freshmen have accepted the challenge of the Harvard Freshmen to row in eight-oared shells, a three-mile straight-away race.

ONLY twenty-six Freshmen have thus far joined the Athletic Association.

SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Crimson must be paid before the delivery of the second number.

"HARVARD and its Surroundings" is now ready, and can be obtained at the University Bookstore.

MR. F. W. THAYER, '78, has obtained a patent from Washington for his invention of the catcher's mask.

THE Union Boat Club propose giving a series of theatrical entertainments in aid of the fund for the H. U. B. C.

THE Captains of the Harvard and Yale crews will probably meet at New London, on Saturday, March 2.

AT the next meeting of the Christian Brethren, on Thursday Evening at 6 1/2 o'clock, Mr. Edward Abbott will be present. All are invited to attend.

THE Glee Club reports a number of concerts in view. The concert which Cambridge people are so anxiously awaiting will be given about April 1.

FELTON Hall has undergone several changes of late, and is now a building that offers many advantages. Those entering next year will, no doubt, recognize its worth.

THE Auditor's report for December, and January has been presented to the Board of Directors of H. D. A. The cost of board for December was $3.70; for January, $4.15.

THE following are the officers of the Christian Brethren for the next half-year: President, Edward Hale, '79; Treasurer, H. F. W. Morse, '78; Secretary, W. B. Hill, '79; Librarian, W. F. Price, '80.

THE entry-book for the winter meeting of the H. A. A. will be opened at the Gymnasium next Monday. All entries for the first day's events must be made before 5 P. M., Friday, March 8.

THE Secretary of the Athletic Association will be at 17 Holworthy, between the hours of 12 and 1 P. M., every day next week. Those wishing to join will please avail themselves of this opportunity.

THE regular meeting for the election of officers to the Harvard Art Club will take place on Thursday, February 28, at 7.30 P. M. After the business meeting has adjourned, Mr. Norton will discuss numismatics.

ONE of the latest additions to the Library is the Beitrage zur Ernahrung des Schweines. As very few students in Cambridge are supposed to be interested in the feeding of pigs, this interesting pamphlet has been sent to the Bussey Institution. The three students who compose the undergraduate department are now doubtless complaining that there are no duplicates to such valuable books of reference.

AT the last regular meeting of the K. N., officers were elected as follows: President, George A. Burdett; Vice-President, F. W. Baker; Secretary, A. S. Thayer; Treasurer, E. C. Howell.

PROFESSOR BOWEN will take Mr. Pa'mer's place in Philosophy 1 until the latter's return. Members of the elective will prepare the first ten pages of the eighth Entretien of Malebranche for the recitation on Monday.

THE following are the names of those training for the Freshman Nine: J. S. Howe (Captain), Barton, Folsom, Avery, Spaulding, L. M. Clark, Fisher, Whiting, Nesmith, Sprague, W. Coolidge, Sanger, Ridgely, H. Elliot.

A ROWING-CLUB has been organized by the members of the Young Men's Christian Association Gymnasium. A boat-house will be built on Charles River this spring; but healthy exercise rather than amateur honors will be the object of the club.

THE denizens of Old Little's were roused from their grinding on Tuesday last by a false alarm of fire. White smoke was seen issuing from a chimney, which, it was afterwards discovered, was caused by the burning of chemicals in the apothecary's shop below.

AT the meeting of the St. Paul's Society last Wednesday, the following officers were elected: President, W. J. Cox, '79; Vice-President, G. H. Davis, '79; Secretary, A. A. Carey, '79; Treasurer, S. Snelling, '79; Librarian, R. C. Sturgis, '81.

THE sympathies of the College are extended to those gentlemen in Nat. Hist. 3 who were disappointed in their expectation of finding on the paper the four questions they had anticipated and prepared. Perhaps next time they will trust more to the text-book than to the voice of rumor.

SINCE the cat-show in Boston and the congress of fair women in New York, it has been proposed to have an intercollegiate exhibition of Freshmen. The genus Freshman certainly presents many interesting varieties, and such a show, if properly managed, might be both moral and instructive. One morning the attendance was divided as follows: Faculty 3, Seniors 15, Juniors 12, Sophomores 3, Freshmen 8. The cry is for a total discontinuance of chapel exercises.

THE Rev. Father Hall of the Church of the Advent, Boston, will deliver a series of lectures on "The Early History of the Christian Church," before the St. Paul's Society, 17 Grays, on Wednesday Evenings during Lent. All are cordially invited to attend.

THERE is some talk among those who have lately been refused entrance to the Glee Club of starting a new musical society called "The Sore-headed Nightingales." If it will occasionally allow itself to be heard, the S. H. N. will soon replace in popular favor the H. G. C., which has confined its melody thus far to a privileged few only.

THE prize bat for the best batting of the season 1877 has been awarded to Mr. Tyng, '76. It is made of mahogany with a silver plate, on which is inscribed: "H. U. B. B. C., season of 1877, prize for the best batting, to James A. Tyng. Average first-base hits, .297; average total base hits, .419." The bat for the coming season is made of ebony with a silver plate. Both are on exhibition in the window of Mr. Bartlett.

MR. FAULHABER will give a series of weekly Readings in German, with German comments, on Monday evenings, beginning February 25, in Harvard Hall. The first readings will be given from Maria Stuart.

Mr. Sheldon will begin a similar course on Thursday evening, February 28, in Holyoke A. The readings will be from Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl.

The readings will begin at 7.30 in each course.

A MEETING of the Harvard Club of San Francisco was recently held in that city, and its affairs seem to be in a prosperous condition. The dinner was well attended, considering the distances men have to travel in California. There were present about twenty or twenty-five graduates and former members of the College. Several members of the class of '77 graced the dinner with their presence, and enthusiastic speeches were made by graduates of longer standing. Mr. Fried-lander, formerly of the class of '79, was the youngest gentleman at the dinner.

THE Faculty has appointed the following members of the second-year class in the Law School, being those who passed the best examination in June last in the studies of the first year, to write parts for the next Commencement, from which the Faculty will select the part to be delivered; Barrows, Bradley, Croswell, Cushing, Du Bois, Green, Howland, Morawetz, O'Callaghan, Ritchie, and Wigglesworth.

THE Second Course of Scientific Lectures will be given at the times indicated, under the auspices of the Harvard Natural History Society, in the Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Mass.

March 6, Prof. J. P. Cooke, Jr., "The Radiometer."

March 14, Prof. Benjamin Peirce, "On the Nebular Theory." Illustrated.

March 21, Prof. W. G. Farlow, "On Seaweeds." Illustrated.

March 28, Prof. W. H. Brewer of the Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven, "On Dogs."

April 11, Prof. J. C. White, "The Structure and Care of the Skin."

April 18, Prof. Asa Gray, "Forest Geography and Archaeology."

April 25, Prof. J. D. Whitney, "The Californian Pliocene Man." Illustrated.

May 2, Prof. H. W. Williams, "Are our Eyes equal to the Demands of a Higher Education?"

Doors closed at 7.35 P. M., when the lectures begin.

Tickets free; to be obtained as follows:

At the Auditor's office, Memorial Hall, Cambridge, from 12.30 to 1.30, and from 5.30 to 6.30 P. M., from March 1 to 6, and at the same hours of the afternoon of each lecture-day.

At the Librarian's Office, Rooms of the Boston Society of Natural History, corner of Berkeley and Boylston Streets, after March 1.

By mail, of R. W. Greenleaf, Cambridge.

Professors and instructors can obtain tickets after March 1, at the Secretary's Office (University).

THOSE very same Juniors at Beck,

So fond of their Pommery sec.,

All night played at whist,

And all day never missed

Extolling "us swells down at Beck."