THE officers of the Everett Athenaeum for the next half-year are: President, J. H. Beale; Vice-President, W. B. Fiske; Secretary, E. Cheney; Treasurer, W. H. Blodgett; Standing Committee, F. R. Burton, G. C. Van Benthuysen, R. Luce; Editors, J. J. Dooling, A. M. Allen, X. H. Goodnough; Stage Manager, F. R. Burton; Chorister, Robert Cumming.

THE surplus in the treasury of the University for the year 1878-79 is $708.99, which has been used to pay in part the deficit of the year before. During the year 1879-80 the large increase of expenditure for the service of the new Gymnasium and the loss of income from room rents of students will cause a deficit in the college account, which cannot be overcome, unless some new sources of unrestricted income shall offer themselves.

THE following interesting information comes from one of those glasses of fashion, the Western newspapers. This time it is the Cincinnati Gazette: "An innovation upon the invariable rule that the trousers must be lighter than the coat and waistcoat, introduced by the members of the Coaching Club in New York last season, finds but little favor. Neutral tints are chosen for calling, and pale shades, especially putty color, for evening wear on occasions when white is not de rigueur."

SCENE: Sophomore's room in Thayer. (Soph., just returned from town, is struggling with his Spanish. Enter serious Junior.)

Soph. loq. - Well - hic - this is the blankest meanest language I - hic - ever saw. And - of - all - the blankity blank blank dictionaries this is the worst! hic - but guess the grammar's worse! Have n't been able to find a single word!

(Junior calmly points out that it is difficult to do Spanish satisfactorily with a German dictionary and a Greek grammar. Exit Sophomore to bed.)

THE following gentlemen have been elected members of the Phi. B. K. Society from the Senior Class: Messrs. A. B. Weimer, H. M. Perry, E. S. Hawes, F. A. Tupper, F. J. Ranlett, L. M. Brown, J. W. Houston, J. A. O'Keefe, Frederic Almy, C. A. Hobbs, T. Roosevelt, W. G. Pellew, H. N. Fowler, F. H. Allen, J. L. Pennypacker, John Woodbury, C. H. Morss, F. D. Jordan, A. W. Moors, W. H. Hills, W. Cole, J. J. Thomsen, C. W. Bradley, J. Quincy, H. E. Guild, J. T. Howe, L. E. Opdycke, H. Town-send, and S. C. Gilbert.

LAST Monday's Herald had an enthusiastic letter from Yale on the prospects of her crew. The New York World of the same date also published a letter from its Yale correspondent, and the discrepancies between the statements of these two letters are as amusing as they are great. The special correspondent of the Herald declares that Yale has fourteen men in training for the crew, who practise constantly on the river and also in the gymnasium, there is much enthusiasm in the college, and a great and final effort will be made to outrow Harvard next June. The Yale correspondent of the World, on the other hand, asserts that only twelve men are candidates for the crew, practice is confined to the gymnasium and to running, the crew will not be on the river till March, and there is entire lack of enthusiasm in the college. Both writers give the names of the crew. Which statement is Harvard to believe?

AN EGGSELLENT FABLE FOR EDITORS.A Sporting Hen once made a Bet with another female Rooster that on Every Consecutive Day in three consecutive months (Sundays excepted, - for though of a Sportive Habit she did not go fast on Sundays, which Every one knows is a Feast-Day) - She would lay a successive and successful Egg, making eggsactly ninety-one in All. A critical Weasel, who liked Dropped Eggs on Toast, determined to investeggate the Performance. Now he was a Pareggrapher on a Boston evening Paper; so deserting his Post he paid a Visit to the Hendignant Chicken.

Coming up to her unawares he said, "You are laying yourself out! Permit me to say that you are eggsaggerating," which so frightened the Innocent Fowl that she made an immediate eggsit from her nest. He made an eggsamination and discovered that the Hen fruit contained therein, though eggsternally beautiful, had no Pith. The yolk laid on the shoulders of the Editor of that daily Egg (0) was too heavy to be borne.

Moral. - Don't hatch your eggs - or advertise them too much - before they are laid. J. K. M.

PROPERTY is not safe in the dressing-room of the new Gymnasium.

THE Annual Crimson Dinner will occur on the evening of Monday, February 8. All past editors are invited.

COPIES of the first number of the present volume of the Crimson are much desired, and all who possess such copies, and do not care to preserve them, will confer a great favor by leaving them at Sever's, where twenty-five cents apiece will be paid for them.