SUBSCRIBE for plank walks.

THE Law School has a deficit of $4,557.01.

THE Dental School has a surplus of $188.04.

THE Scientific School has a deficit of $296.97.

THE Divinity School has a deficit of $2,351.84.

THE Medical School has a surplus of $16,763.29

HARE and Hounds is now a favorite game at Yale.

THE Yale Glee Club made $400 during their Western trip.

THE Lacrosse team has begun practice in the Gymnasium.

A CLOCK is much needed in the main hall of the Gymnasium.

THE semi-annuals are upon us, but, alas! all of us are not up on them.

MR. EDGAR FAWCETT will read the Phi Beta Kappa poem next summer.

THE dinner of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity occurred in Boston last evening.

As large an edition of the Catalogue is now sold as was formerly distributed gratuitiously.

THE Initiation Supper of the Phi. B. K. will take place shortly after the semi-annuals.

THE Library needs a permanent fund for salaries, cataloguing, and bibliographical printing.

DR. STILLE, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, has resigned. His successor is not decided on.

BEFORE the arms and equipments of the H. R. C. were removed to the new Gymnasium, four rifles were stolen.

YALE has refused to join the Intercollegiate Base-Ball Association unless Richmond, the Brown professional, "pulls out."

IT is not true that the recent fire in the Chemical Laboratory was set by the Echo editor in the room for the sake of an item.

A LARGE part of the expenses of the Museum of Comparative Zoology is paid by Mr. Agassiz out of his own private fortune.

REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS will address the Society of Christian Brethren at St. John's Chapel, next Sunday evening, at 7.30.

THE invested funds of the University amounted, on Aug. 31, 1879, to $3,902,181.73, the income of which for the current year was $205,313.64.

THE income of the Bussey Institution is not sufficient to pay its instructors this year, and some of them have consented to serve without pay.

PROFESSOR JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has been appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Great Britain.

BOWDOIN has a new boat-house, costing $575.

PROFESSOR TROWBRIDGE has gone to New York to witness Edison's experiments.

THE subjects for the Fifth Sophomore Theme are: (1) The Use of Translations, (2) Mr. James's Novels, (3) The Value of Literary Criticism.

THE Class Committee wish all Seniors who have not already had their class photographs taken to do so immediately, as Mr. Notman desires to finish all of the photographs at once, if possible.

THE rules of the bowling-alleys are very unsatisfactory. Already men are taking advantage of the ticket system, and it is to be hoped that the rules of the old Gymnasium will be adopted.

THE first eight from '81 of the Phi. B. K. are as follows: Messrs. A. O. Jameson, F. J. B. Cordeiro, W. C. Lane, E. C. Howell. J. B. Ludlow, G. M. Lane, C. B. Penrose, and H. E. Scott.

IT is reported that General Lister has in preparation a book on Athletics. The work is to be exhaustive, containing compilations from the best German and French treatises on the subject.

THE Committee on Elections has made a final report, favorable to the eligibility of Dr. Bellows as an Overseer. The report was accepted, but debate was adjourned until the next meeting of the Corporation.

SCENE: Memorial Hall, and two gentlemen lighting their cigarettes.

Head Waiter. - Can't smoke here, gentlemen. If I don't cognize you, they 'll take cognizance of me. I am sorry, but I must.

SCENE: a Freshman's room. TIME: just before the Christmas recess.

Enter Senior. - Good-morning Would you like to give something to Billy, the postman?

Freshman (slowly) - Is it - customary to - billy the postman? (Fact.)

SCENE: Recitation in English 7. (A Senior is discoursing on the Dunciad.)

"With the third book the Dunciad properly ends. But Pope was induced to add a fourth, which, like every Annex, contributes no beauty itself, and impairs the strength and effect of the rest." (This brings down the house.)

REV PHILLIPS BROOKS will deliver the first of four sermons to the students next Sunday evening, at 7.30, in St. John's Memorial Chapel. Seats will be reserved until 7.20 for the students, who will find it most convenient to enter by the transept door, nearest the new deanery. It is to be hoped that a large number will avail themselves of this opportunity to hear Mr. Brooks.

AN elevated railroad from Boston to Cambridge is again talked of. Several routes are proposed.

LET every one put down his name and address for the Crimson subscription for plank walks without delay.

IN Fine Arts 5, King's Handbook of English Cathedrals is used. When Appleton Chapel is reached, the same author will be consulted.

THE library of the late Dr. Charles Pickering has been presented to the College, and for the first time in the case of such a bequest, permission has been given to distribute the books among the different departments where they will do the most good. The library contains some four or five hundred volumes, with a number of pamphlet monographs.

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.

THE February number of the Register will contain articles by the Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody, Rev. Dr. George Z. Gray, Professor Josiah D. Whitney, Professor Charles C. Everett, Professor F. H. Storer, Professor N. S. Shaler, Justin Winsor, John Kirke, Arthur Gilman, Dr. B. Joy Jeffries, and Dr. D. A. Sargent.

DIVINITY SCHOOL: Class in Hebrew.

Prof. (to hesitating student). - You do think Balaam's ass did speak slow as that?

(Student unable to say.)

Prof. (facetiously). - You do allow, then, an ass to know more Hebrew than you?

Student (suddenly inspired). - Yes, sir, very probably, more Hebrew and less English. - Ex.

Tutor. - Your writing is so wretched, sir, that I can't make anything out of it. How have you rendered Caesaris bonae leges?

Sub-Freshman. - Why, "the bony legs of Caesar," I believe, sir. (Small earthquake.) - Ex.

THE managers of the H. U. B. B. C. have not made any arrangement for transferring the case of trophies to the new Gymnasium, as was originally planned. Besides this, the balls that were won last year have never been put in the case, - a negligence that has occasioned some comment among those who are interested in the preservation of memorials of our victories.

THE "Academy," speaking of Prof. Goodwin's Greek Grammar, an enlarged and revised edition of which is to be issued shortly by Messrs. Macmillan & Co., says: "The same author's Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb has already made a name for itself in this country; but his Grammar is as yet unknown here. Such a work from a scholar of recognized eminence on the subject will, no doubt, attract attention."

ATTENTION is called to the advertisement of Dr. Tourjee's Conservatory of Music on page vii. This establishment is well adapted to meet the musical wants of Harvard men.