THE Sophomore Class Supper will take place at Young's Hotel on Friday evening, February 28, at 7 o'clock. The price of tickets will be $3.25, including the book of songs. A book for names is now open at Bartlett's.
IT is earnestly hoped by those who have been unable to go to Boston and hear Professor Child's lectures on the ballad-poetry of England and Scotland, that it may some time be found practicable to repeat the lectures in Cambridge.
MEMBERS of Sections III. and IV. of Division C in Junior Themes will find their themes at the office in a tin marked Junior C. The next Theme day for these sections will be March 4 Sections I. and II. will report together, with Theme V., on March 18.
MR. JOHN FISKE has resigned his position as Assistant Librarian of the College Library, and Mr. Samuel H. Scudder is to be his successor. Mr. Scudder has been for several years connected with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and also with our Scientific School.
CIRCULARS are out for the purpose of raising funds to found a young ladies' college in Cambridge. It is to be modelled after Harvard in almost every respect. It will have similar electives and methods of study, and it is proposed to have Harvard professors take the professorships in addition to their present work. It will differ from Harvard, however, in imposing certain severe restrictions upon the liberty of the young ladies, and they will not be permitted to come into our college Yard.
OVER eight hundred tickets to the Natural History Society lectures have been called for. This course of lectures is so popular that it is hoped that students will not ask for more tickets than they expect to use.
PHOTOGRAPHS of an instructor in a once popular History Course are now on sale at Sever's. He is represented as just having marked an examination-book forty per cent. The demand has thus far been rather light, so in future a copy of the "Verses from the Harvard Advocate" will be given with each picture.
A MEETING was held last Sunday evening at Dr. Ellis's church, on Berkeley Street, to take measures to raise the funds which are needed by the Divinity School. Addresses were made by President Eliot, Professor Everett, the Rev. Dr. Bellows, and others. $130,000 is needed to place the school on a successful working footing.
THE following men are now trying for the University Nine: Alger, '79; Annan, L. S.; Bacon, '80; Brown, '79; Brown, '82; Black, '79; Cook, '79; Coolidge, '81; Cohen, L. S.; Dalzell, '79; Elliott, '81; Fisher, '81; Folsom, '81; Harding, '78; Howe, M. S.; Huse, M. S.; Nunn, '79; Parker, '81; Perrin, '82; Spaulding, '81; Winsor, '80.
MR. EDWARD ATKINSON delivered a very interesting address on "Capital and Labor" before the Finance Club on Friday evening last. In spite of the Semi-annuals a large number of undergraduates were present, besides several members of the Faculty. The Finance Club have reason to be satisfied with the success of their first lecture, and their future ones will be looked forward to with much interest.
AT a meeting of the Freshman Class on Wednesday evening last an acceptance was read from the Columbia Freshmen of the challenge to row an eight-orared, straightaway race with coxswains, time to be agreed upon hereafter. The Columbia Freshmen also accepted the suggestion of New London as a suitable place, and the race will, therefore, be rowed there. The President of the class was authorized to appoint a committee of three to arrange all matters pertaining to the race.