HARVARD has received $30,000 by the will of Mr. Charles L. Jones of Cambridge, to be used in founding six Scholarships.

ALL efforts to have the water turned on at the boat-house have been in vain. Will not the authorities attend to this matter?

MR. WINSOR delivered his lecture on "The Earliest Maps of America," before the Appalachian Mountain Club, last Wednesday evening.

THERE has been considerable complaint about the hour for dinner at Memorial; many wishing it changed from half past five to six, in order to accommodate those training for the crews, and those wishing to see the ball matches.

FIFTY men were present at Mr. Dyer's reading from the "Ajax," Wednesday evening. The next reading will be given next Wednesday.

GENERAL RICHARD TAYLOR, who died last week at New York, was not a Harvard graduate, in spite of the fact that a great many papers have stated that he was.

THE Lacrosse Club held a meeting Monday night, and appointed a committee on uniforms. They practise every afternoon, at half past three, on the Common.

THE campus at Cornell University is illuminated every night with electric lights at the expense of a cent an hour, leaving no chance for mischief in the dark.

AT the last meeting of the K. N. the following officers were elected: J. McG. Foster, President; F. R. Burton, Vice-President; C. F. Mason, Secretary; E. Cheney, Treasurer.

MR. WILLIAM BLAIKIE contributes to Harper's for May a very interesting and useful article on the risks of athletic work, in which he gives some sound advice to those in training.

IT is reported that the Professors' retiring-rooms in Sever Hall will be heated by steam, and will also be supplied with open fireplaces and "other appurtenances of comfort and enjoyment."

MESSRS. Bacon, Hooper, Lamson, and Shaw are the managers of the Cambridge Assemblies from the Class of '80. The Junior Assembly will take place on about May 2, at the Arsenal.

MR. SWIFT JOHNSON, a young American, has gained a scholarship at Trinity College, Dublin, but being an alien his right to it is disputed, and the matter is to be argued before the University authorities.

IT is reported that the Registrar has threatened to suspend any one whom he finds sitting out of his regular seat at prayers. One man has already been put on special probation for going to prayers, because he is regularly excused.

SEVER HALL will be 177 feet in length by 57 in width and 80 in height. The third floor is to be partly devoted to an art department, consisting of a lecture-room capable of seating three hundred persons, and two large art galleries for statuary and pictures. The seats will be so arranged in the recitation-rooms that the light from the windows will fall over the left shoulders of the students. The contract specifies that the building will be finished by April 1, 1880.