THE following preachers will address the St. Paul's Society on Monday evenings during Lent, at Christ Church, the services to begin at 7.30: Feb. 16, Rev. Leighton Parks: Feb. 23, Rev. W. W. Newton; Mar. I, Rev. A. C. A. Hall; Mar. 8, Rev. Phillips Brooks; Mar. 15, Rev. Percy Browne.
ACCORDING to the Advocate's metrical method of measurement, one member of the University Crew is thirty-two feet around the chest, fourteen feet around the calf, and twelve feet around the upper arm. Let the Yale men hear and tremble, for the other men are proportioned equally magnificently.
MR. JOHN LANGDON SIBLEY, who for forty years has edited the Triennial Catalogue, is now engaged in preparing the Quinquennial for 1880, and all who are interested in having their names correctly printed, with all their honors, or who can make corrections respecting any of the graduates, or furnish information of deaths, ought to report immediately.
THE third in the series of Philharmonic Concerts was given in Sanders Theatre last evening. Mr. Osgood sang the "Erl King."
IN speaking of Harvard's chair of Chinese, the London Telegraph mentions the great need of a professor of the language in England. It seems that a large number of Englishmen would jump at such a chance of learning Chinese. Professor Ko cannot be spared here at present; but if these Englishmen would enter Harvard, he would no doubt be willing to increase the size of his elective.
THE addition of Dr. Hagen's library to the Museum of Comparative Zoology makes its entomological department by far the most valuable in the country. The card catalogue has 4,279 entries, of which 3,457 represent Dr. Hagen's books, 822 the others, which are almost entirely the gift to the Museum of Professors L. and A. Agassiz. The entire library is judged by Dr. Hagen to contain about 2,000 volumes and 3,000 pamphlets.
A FORMER President of a New England college, after getting a seat in a horse-car, noticed one of the Freshmen of his college curled up in front of him, and exhibiting obvious signs of vinous exhilaration. A close inspection revealed the fact that the state of inebriety was not hastily put on, like a hat, but had been worn closely, like an undershirt, for several days. For a few moments the President surveyed the undergraduate with an expression of mingled commiseration and disgust, and finally he exclaimed, "Been on a drunk !" The half-conscious student rallied his straying senses, and with a gleam of good-fellowship in his eye, somewhat unexpectedly ejaculated, "So-hic-have I !"