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BREVITIES.

THE Yale Record speaks of the bad financial condition of the Y. U. B. C., and advises all those whose subscriptions are due, to pay them.

THE Junior Class at Yale gave a theatrical performance for the benefit of the Boat Club at the theatre in New Haven, on Tuesday.

THE 115th Commencement of the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania took place at the Academy of Music, in Philadelphia, on Monday last.

IT is very probable that Richmond will accept the position of catcher on the Worcesters, and therefore be debarred from playing in the intercollegiate games.

THE debate next Thursday, at the meeting of those who take English 6, will be at three o'clock. The subject for discussion will be: Resolved, that Cabinet Officers should be admitted to the floor of Congress. Mr. Gamaliel Bradford will open the discussion. All members of the University are invited.

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THE "singles" ordered by the H. U. B. C. are expected next week. as well as a new Whitehall boat.

THE Herald, last Sunday, gave a very good account of Professor Benjamin Pierce, and his work as the first of American Mathematicians.

THE H. U. B. C. held a meeting Tuesday evening, concerning Yale's having a professional coach, and decided to refer the matter to the Executive Committee.

MR. THOMAS HUGHES lectured recently to the Workingmen's College of London on "James Russell Lowell." He spoke highly of Mr. Lowell as a man of letters.

THE Junior Crew were on the river for the first time Wednesday. Hemenway pulled stroke; Brewer, 7; Swan, 6; Elliott, 5; Foster, 4; Mueller, 3; Swinburne, 2; and Hammond (Capt.), 1.

THE Fifth Annual Convention of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association will be held April 3, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, at 9.30 A.M. Each college belonging to the Association is entitled to be represented by two delegates.

THE Society of Christian Brethren, having obtained No. 18 Stoughton, have been able. through the benevolence of past members and friends of the Society, to refurnish their room. They will hold their first meeting in it Thursday evening, March 25, at 6.30. Professor Palmer is expected to take charge, and a hearty invitation is given to members of the University to be present.

THE Yale College Catalogue for 1879-80 shows that the students at the college number 1,003, including 581 in the academical apartment, 175 in the scientific school, 88 in the theological school, 32 in the medical college, and 74 in the law school; the rest being divided between the students in the school of fine arts and those pursuing a graduate course. The list of Faculty and instructors includes one hundred names.

THE Class Day Committee invite all members of the class to compete in writing the words for the Class Song. Copies must be handed to the committee or the chorister before May 1. The music selected requires eight lines to a stanza, and the number of stanzas is usually three. The following will serve as a specimen of the metre: -

"From this fair point of present bliss,

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