IT is stated that Minister James Russell Lowell will be obliged to leave Madrid and come home on account of his wife's health.

MR. WENDELL and Mr. Simmons wish it stated that the entering of their names for the Park Garden Games was wholly unauthorized.

THE Bicycle Club will be interested to know that Scribner's is to have a paper upon the sport, by the well-known rider and writer, Mr. Charles E. Pratt.

THE proposed lengthening of the breakfast hour at Memorial Hall has been given up, on account of the trouble that it would make among the servants in the kitchen.

A SMALL silver box has been lost between Memorial Hall and Sever's. The finder will confer a favor by calling or sending his address to No. 52 Brattle Street.

A FRESHMAN recently attended Pinafore, and left in hot haste at the beginning of the second act, for fear that the doors of the domitories might be locked before he got home! (Fact.)

PROFESSOR LOVERING is giving a course of twelve lectures for the Lowell Institute, on Saturday evenings. His subject is "The Connection of the Physical Sciences."

PROFESSOR WILLIAM G. FARLOW will deliver twelve lectures for the Lowell Institute on the "Lower Forms of Plant Life." The lectures will be given on successive Monday and Thursday evenings.

THE Editors of THE CRIMSON desire to call attention to the fact that they do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed in the Correspondence Column.

THE Board of Directors of Memorial Hall have petitioned the Corporation for leave to put in a few more tables. There are still some fifteen or twenty persons boarding at the hall over and above the number of seats.

PROFESSOR PAINE proposes having a subscription series of five chamber concerts this winter, to be given probably in Boylston Hall. Works of the modern as well as those of the classic masters will be produced.

IT is reported that the Bicycle Club have engaged for the winter the building formerly occupied by John Wilson & Son. The lower story will be used as a storeroom for bicycles, and the upper floor for a rink or a tennis court.

THE Harvard Philosophical Club will meet Monday, October 27, 8 P. M., at 45 Holyoke. An article in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy for July, 1878, entitled "Some Considerations on the Notion of Space," will be read.

A COMMITTEE of ten, made up of five alumni and five undergraduates, will preside hereafter over Yale's athletic interests, and the alumni will have a vote on the appointment of men to represent the college in athletic contests.

THE collection of books in modern Greek, which has had the special care of the late President Felton and Professor Sophocles, has recently been rearranged for use in the Library. It is by far the best collection of modern Greek works in America.