THE Harvard Historical Society comprises only Seniors and graduates, 20 in all. The officers are Hart, '80, President; Mills, '81, Vice President; and Cohen, '81, Secretary and Treasurer.
THE receipts for Bernhardts twenty-five performances at Booth's Theatre, New York, amounted to $98,882. The largest receipts for one night were $5,634, and the smallest, $2,919.
ADMISSION conditions in Modern and Physical Geography, Physical Science, English Composition, French, and German may be made up at special examinations to be held at the close of the Christmas recess.
MLLE. BERNHARDT has wisely decided to finish out her engagement in Boston, notwithstanding the dramatic scribe of last Tuesday's Echo, who damned her with faint praise, and gave the world to understand that she has no genius.
LAST year warnings were sent to some forty students in Political Economy after the first hour-examination. There is good prospect that this number will not fall off this year, judging from the looks of the students as they left U. E. R. last Monday.
AT the last meeting of the Directors of the Dining Association it was voted that any member withdrawing from the Hall within two weeks before a recess, and returning within-two weeks after it, shall be granted only the usual allowance for temporary absence. This was passed to defeat evasion of claims for temporary absence under the pretence of having "withdrawn" from the Association. Mineral waters will henceforth be kept as extras on the bill of fare.
ONE of the dormitories has a proctor who plays on his piano out of hours, and thus interferes with the work of the students. Where is the proctor of the proctor?
WE have received a faded crimson card with an account of the '84 rush at the Torchlight Procession printed on it. We would suggest to the perpetrators of this childish memento, that green might have been a more appropriate color.
THE new Philological Society holds its first meeting, open to the general public, at 7.30 o'clock next Wednesday evening in Sever 11, when Professor J. W. White will read a paper on the Theatre of Diony-sius at Athens. This paper will, doubtless, be interesting to those who are looking forward to the Greek Play in Sanders Theatre in the spring.
"LET each alumni send his own location and business if he can do no more." - Brunonian.
"A SERIOUS defect in most of our college curriculums is the little opportunity presented for independent study." - Brunonian, Dec. 4.
We would suggest a course in elementary English Grammar for the editors of the Brunonian.
THE price of board per week for November in Memorial Hall has been $4.29. The following is an analysis of that amount: provisions, $2.95; service, 68 1/2; coal, .10; water, .01; gas, .08; breakage, .04; interest, .12; reduction of debt, .06; summer repairs, .06 1/2; allowances for Sunday absence, .09; miscellaneous, .02; head money, .07.
A NOTICE on the first floor of College House requests the inhabitants to be quiet on account of the illness of a student. A mat is spread in the hall to stop the noise of walking, - a precaution which suggests that it be permanently kept up. A wicked Sophomore was heard to remark that if illness brings mats into the hall, it might be desirable to have an invalid constantly in the building.
THE Philosophical Club met last Tuesday night, and listened to an interesting paper by Rev. Mr. Thwing on "The Fundamental Laws of Belief," which was followed by a very animated discussion. The Club has decided to arrange a course of lectures during February and March. Owing to the nearness of the vacation, the Club will not meet till after Christmas.
A NEW vocabulary, it seems, has been invented in a certain apartment in University Hall. A Junior, summoned to account for absences from recitations, showed a doctor's certificate in proof of his illness. This will not do, he was told; the College is not a hospital. If ill, the student had better go home, and return when well.
THE great petition of the Juniors is granted. Seniors were heard to complain of their fate, that they were one year too soon.
THE Reserved Book Fiend is abroad. A book on Comparative Anatomy suddenly disappeared, and after two weeks just as suddenly returned to the shelves. Several reserved books in History 9 have also gone on a vacation. The popular theory that spiritualistic mediums are at work here is repudiated by the Library authorities. But whether the thief is a spirit or not, the College authorities, if they detect him, will treat him very materially.