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BREVITIES.

THE Library, the Museums, the Botanical Garden, and the Astronomical Observatory have been open all summer.

FROM fifty to one hundred people have visited the Museum of Comparative Zoology every day during the summer.

STUDENTS entering college, or returning from vacation, are requested to leave their address - name of building or street, and number of room - at the Post-Office, so that their letters can be delivered without delay.

THE hydraulic rowing-machines are to be transferred from the boat-house to the Crew's room in the new Gymnasium.

IT is proposed that the Museum of Comparative Zoology be officially named the Agassiz Museum, after its founder.

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DR. DUDLEY A. SARGENT of New York has been appointed full Professor of Hygiene, with a seat in the Faculty.

THE Crew will have a practice-room in the Gymnasium, 80 X 20; and a bath-room, 6 X 10, with two bowls and two tubs.

THERE are thirty-three American students in the University of Berlin. Five of these are in the Theological Department.

FOR labor-saving devices for students, see the advertisement of the "Readers and Writers' Economy Co." on page 7.

THE Fall Class Races will probably be rowed in barges, instead of in shells, in order to insure a race in spite of rough water.

INSTRUCTORS in fencing and sparring will be in attendance at the Gymnasium, with the sanction of the College authorities.

ROBERTS BROTHERS have issued a new edition of "Hebrew Men and Times," by Prof. J. H. Allen, of the Divinity School.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Herald thinks that the Hemenway Gymnasium is but a slight improvement on the old one.

IT is remarkable that most of the young instructors at Harvard have volunteered to give instruction in the new College for Women.

SEVER HALL is going up rapidly. Sixty different styles of brick are used in the construction. The Hall will not be finished until next April.

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