THE following is the order of events of the H. A. A. next Friday: 1. half-mile run; 2. mile walk; 3. one hundred yards' dash; 4. running broad jump; 5. one mile run; 6. hurdle race (120 yards); 7. one fourth mile run; 8. potato race; 9. three-legged race; 10. bicycle race (three miles). Contestants are reminded that if they do not appear within five minutes after the bell is rung, they will positively be excluded.
THE following are final changes that have been made in the schedule of the Annual Examinations. Each examination will begin at 10 A. M., except those that take place in the afternoon. Music 4, 5, Wednesday, June 5, instead of June 14; the examinations on Friday, June 7, and those on Thursday, June 6, have been transposed; Phil. 3 is fixed for June 8 instead of May 30; examinations fixed for June 14 and 8 have been transposed; Italian 2 begins at 2 P.M. June 11; and Junior Metaphysics at 9 A. M.
To the student seeking amusement after his sumptuous dinner at Memorial Hall, the Rifle Corps, which appears on Holmes Field, in its new uniform, every Monday evening, offers a spectacle at once pleasing and edifying. Some persons, who used to drill in the Boston School Regiment when they were little boys, are inclined to make invidious comparisons, but of course such comparisons are entirely out of place. It has not been decided yet when the Corps will "go into camp," but it is generally understood that Chelsea is the spot selected.
TWENTY thousand "manilla slips" are used in the Library every month.
SCORE at Lowell yesterday Lowells 6, Harvard 0; base-hits, Lowells 12, Harvard 4; errors, Lowells 2, Harvard 6.
PRIZES have been offered by private gentlemen for the following events, conditional on the appended time being equalled or beaten: One fourth mile run, 56 s.; one hundred yards' dash, 10 1/2 s.; one mile run, 4 m. 55 s.; one mile walk, 8 m. The prize for the bicycle race is made conditional on five men starting; the H. A. A. will add a handsome second prize if five men finish the race.
MOSES KING'S new edition of "Harvard and its Surroundings" bears the evidence of careful revision and judicious alteration. The heliotypes of the different buildings (numbered) are arranged in the same order as the letter-press description, and the map of the Yard is so numbered as to enable the visitor to make its circuit with the book in hand, without being confused by the mystical directions that are found usually in guide-books. A better selection of college interiors than in the last edition is noticeable in the present volume.
"The vacancies in the Board of Overseers of Harvard College to be filled at the election on Commencement Day, June 26, 1878, are as follows: Five for the full term of six years, in place of Dr. Edward H. Clarke, deceased, and of Dr. Le Baron Russell, Rev. Alexander McKenzie, and Messrs. Darwin E. Ware and George W. C. Noble, whose term of office expires on Commencement Day. Messrs. Ware and Noble are not eligible for re-election, having been elected for two successive terms. Messrs. Russell and McKenzie are eligible for re-election. The Standing Committee of the association will receive ballots during the month of May; these should be addressed to William R. Ware, Secretary, 2 Pemberton Square, Boston. Each ballot should contain the names of not more than five candidates, and must be signed by the voter who offers it. The electors are not limited, in making nominations, to the names proposed by the committee. The Overseers are required to be 'all inhabitants within the State.' No member of the Corporation, and no officer of government or instruction in the College, is eligible as an Overseer, or entitled to vote in the election. All other graduates of the College of five years' standing, and all persons not graduates who have received from the College any honorary degree, are entitled to vote." - Transcript.
THE base-ball editor of the Advocate had a thought last week which must have owed its parentage to a wish! The thought was, that in the four games played by our Nine with the Manchesters, the record stands eleven to eleven. Unfortunately for him, according to his own figures, which by the way are incorrect, the sum total amounts to twelve to eleven in their favor. But in addition to his careless mathematical error, he seems to have forgotten entirely that the score of the second game was ten to four in our favor; and that the sum total as corrected stands fourteen to eleven, in favor of our Nine, who have made 0, 10, 3, 1, to their 0, 4, 3, 4.
PROGRAMME of the Club Races for the Graduates' Cup for sixes, and the races between the Harvard University Boat Club and the Union Boat Club, Charles River Course, Saturday, May 18, 1878. Time, 2.30 P. M.
SINGLE-SCULL RACE (2 miles).F. Peabody, T. Houghton, C. Wilde, U. B. C.; G. H. Benyon, N. B. C.; W. N. Goddard, G. Griswold, Jr., H. U. B. C.
SIX-OAR RACE (2 miles).Matthews: P. Keyes, '79 (bow), Captain; F. B. Hall, '80, E. Fuller, '80, G. B. Hatch, '80, L. F. Woodward, S. S., G. K. Boutelle, '78, H. W. Mason, '78 (coxswain). Weld: P. Tuckerman, '78 (bow), H. Townsend, '80, D. O. Ives, '79, A. W. Hooper, '81, W. Trimble, '79, R. Trimble, '80 (stroke), F. H. Allen, '80 (cox).
FOUR-OARED RACE (2 miles).Union: T. Houghton, C. H. Williams, Jones (bow), F. Peabody (stroke), Williams, 2d. (cox.). Harvard: W. Kessler, '78 (bow), T. W. Preston, '79, J. Parker, '78, L. N. Littauer, '78 (stroke), G. L. Cheney, '78 (cox.).