TUFTS COLLEGE is to have a rifle-club.

THE Freshmen have a Glass Ball Shooting Club.

THE Nine will play with Trinity to-morrow, Saturday, April 20, in Hartford.

THE Scratch Races will be rowed over the boat-house course on Saturday, April 27.

THE training table for the Crew was opened at Mrs. Clark's on Harvard St., Wednesday, April 17.

ERRATUM. In the Crimson, Vol. XI. No. 4, p. 41, line 12 from the bottom of first column, read "Bouguereau" for "Bougereau."

THE Brown University Freshmen played with the new Fall River Amateur Nine on Fast Day. The score was 8 to 3, in favor of the Freshmen.

THE athletic tournament in aid of the B. Y. M. C. A. rowing club, announced to take place in the Tabernacle, will be given in the Boston Music Hall.

IN the game between Yale and Trinity, played Wednesday, April 17, at Hartford, Yale won by a score of 6 to 1; but made no base hits. Trinity made 17 errors.

THE concert to be given by the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality at Sanders Theatre, in aid of the H. U. B. C., will take place Tuesday evening, April 30, at 8 o'clock.

PICKPOCKETS have found their way again into the boat-house. On last Tuesday afternoon a pocket-book with a sum of money was taken from a gentleman's clothes in the Club boat-house while he was on the river.

THE Freshman class meeting, which was to have taken place on Monday, April 8, to take action relative to their crew, was postponed, as it was impossible to secure a quorum.

IN the Crimson of April 5, the base-ball game between our Nine and the Amherst club, which is to be played at Amherst, May 29, was printed by mistake as fixed for May 2.

THE managers of the Cambridge Assemblies have been chosen from the Junior class as follows: Mr. J. T. Coolidge, 3d., Mr. W. Sheafe, Jr, Mr. I. T. Burr, Jr., and Mr. F. H. Rindge.

PROFESSOR BOWEN has contributed to the March number of the Princeton Review an article entitled "Dualism, Materialism, or Idealism?" His conclusions favor the philosophy of idealism.

THEY play cricket even in India. A team of Parsee cricketers, the champions of India, will visit England next June with the object of playing a series of matches against English clubs.

MR. BRANDEGEE, '81, went to Ithaca during the late recess to secure a settlement with the Cornell Freshmen in regard to the place for the Freshman race; but Cornell refuses to row at any place but Saratoga.

WE regret to learn that in the last inning of the Live Oak game Mr. Ernst stretched the short head of the biceps muscle in his right leg, and trust that the injury may not prove more than a temporary lameness.

THE following eminent English writers are to receive the degree of D. C. L. from the University of Edinburgh: Lord Houghton, Sir Joseph Whitworth, Samuel Smiles, and Francis Turner Palgrave. The ceremony will take place next Tuesday.

JUNIOR FORENSICS. Those Juniors from whom forensics are still due are requested to leave them in the letter-box of 20 Holworthy on or before Tuesday next. Delinquents are reminded that 24 censure marks per week are charged to them until the forensics are all handed in.

LAST Saturday Captain Bancroft went on to New London with Mr. Weld, and selected quarters for the crew, and, although they are not as satisfactory as those of last year, yet they do very well. The house that he chose is pleasantly situated on the left bank of the river, near the head of the course, and has in front of it a little cove that is protected from the wind and makes a very good place for the boat-house. The principal objection to the house is the lack of shade-trees. This disadvantage may be obviated by setting up a large marquee.

THE first game the Freshman Nine played this season was with the AEtnas of Newport, R. I., on Wednesday, April 10, on Holmes Field. The Freshmen won the game by a score of 37 to 2, making only one error. If reports are accurate, the men of '81 will have a much harder task to beat the Yale Freshmen.

ALL persons taking rooms in Holyoke House or Matthews will be required, if they employ any one, to employ the janitor of the building, to make fires, black boots, bring water, etc. It is hoped in this way to secure better care of the rooms, and to prevent the damage which is often done to the walls and floors by careless scouts.

A COURSE of ten lectures upon the principles and practice of horticulture will be given by Professors Goodale and Farlow and Mr. Watson, at the Bussey Institution, Jamaica Plain, beginning Saturday, April 20. The lectures will be given on successive Saturdays at three o'clock P. M. The fee for the course will be three dollars.

THE uniform in which the Rifle Corps appeared this week, and which was furnished by several gentlemen of Boston who are interested in the corps, is chaste if not magnificent. It consists of a dark blue coat, cut like a West Point dress-coat, with white lacing and facings, trousers to match, and a blue cap with white pompon. The officers are distinguished from the privates by their gold lacing and facings and crimson pompons, as well as by their style.

ALL members of the University who wish to avail themselves of the opportunity that the Rifle Corps offers of learning military drill, are invited to present themselves at the Gymnasium on any Monday at 6.30 or 7.30 P. M. Co. A is open to all upper classmen and members of other departments than the College proper. Co. B is open to Freshmen of the College. The corps has at present about seventy-five active members, but an increase is desired.

AT the last meeting of the Board of Directors of the Dining Hall it was voted that the Hall be kept open during the spring recess. Those members who remained will have to pay the regular price for board, and those who left Cambridge can claim, on their return, temporary absence allowance for that time. "Any member who withdraws from the Association within the week prior to the recess and joins again within the same limit after the recess, whether with the intention of avoiding his share of the charge or not, will be considered as temporarily absent." Breakfast will be served, for the remainder of the year, between the hours of 7.15 and 8.45 A. M.

THE sixth subscription concert at the Sanders Theatre will be given on Tuesday evening, April 23, at eight o'clock, by Thomas's Orchestra assisted by Messrs. Brandt and Hemmann.

PROGRAMME.PART I.

1. Overture to Coriolanus, in C minor, op. 62.....................BEETHOVEN.

2. Duo Concertante for violin and violoncello, with orchestra, in A major, op. 33..............PAINE.

Messrs. BRANDT and HEMMANN.

3. a. Prelude. b. Choral. c. Organ Fugue in G minor. Adapted for Orchestra by J. J. Abert...................BACH.

PART II.

1. Nocturne and Scherzo from the music to A Midsummer-night's Dream, op. 61......MENDELSSOHN.

2. Symphony, No. 1, in B flat, op. 38........................SCHUMANN.

THE fourth session of the Summer School of Geology will be held, as were the first and second sessions, in connection with the field-work of the Kentucky Geological Survey. The object will be to afford field practice on the various problems of Physical Geology accessible between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains. Persons may enter upon their work at any time after June 15. The fee for instruction and the use of camp equipage will be fifty dollars for the term of six weeks. Board in camp will be about five dollars per week. The school will be under the general supervision of the Professor of Palaeontology, who will be present for a part of the term; he will be assisted by two or more competent instructors. For further information address Prof. N. S. Shaler, Cambridge, Mass.

AT a meeting of the Board of Overseers, held April 10, the following appointments were confirmed: Charles H. Wiswell, A. B, '77, and William J. Nichols, A. B., '74, as proctors; Edward S. Sheldon, A. B., as tutor in German from September 1, 1878; Henry Cabot Lodge, Ph. D., as instructor in History for the ensuing academic year; H. B. Hodges as instructor in Chemistry and German; E. L. Mark, Ph. D., as instructor in Zoology; Silas Marcus MacVane, A. B., as instructor in History; James L. Laughlin, Ph. D., as instructor in Political Economy; Dr. T. M. Rotch as clinical instructor on diseases of children, for the current academic year; George Riddle, A. B., instructor in Elocution during the current academic year and during the absence of Professor Baxter. A proposal to present from the estate of the late Geo. O. Hovey, Esq., the sum of $5,000 to the Harvard Medical School, provided "its advantages can be offered to women on equal terms with men," was referred to the following committee: Alex. Agassiz, Esq., President Eliot, Morrill Wyman, M. D., J. Elliot Cabot, Esq., and Le Baron Russell, M. D.