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BREVITIES.

MEMORIAL has 588 boarders.

TWO bicycles have been stolen from Felton.

THE Lacrosse Team will play no games until next fall.

THE Bicycle Club dinner took place at Young's last evening.

MR. WARING is now rowing as substitute on the Sophomore Crew.

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BENJ. P. CHENEY, of Boston, has given Dartmouth College $50,000.

THE Freshman race has been changed from the 7th to the 5th of July.

IN the game with Brockton Wednesday, our nine was defeated by a score of 3 to 2.

IN the Junior sculler's race between Messrs. Ellis, '80, and Gilley, '80, postponed from last autumn, Mr. Ellis won.

ALL the crews have changed the rigs of their boats, and show a marked improvement therefrom.

THE University Nine left at noon for Hanover, N. H., where they will play Dartmouth to-morrow.

THE Sophomores were not satisfied with the Eliot pin, and have gone back to the original square rowlock.

MESSRS. Richmond and Kip have had to leave the Freshman crew. Their places have been filled by Messrs. Sherwood and Burch.

DEAN GRAY, of the Episcopal Theological Seminary, addressed the Society of Christian Brethren, Thursday evening, in their rooms.

REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS preached in Appleton Chapel last Sunday evening. He is expected to preach there again on the 16th, at the same hour.

CANDIDATES for honors, both second-year and final, will present themselves for examination in U. E. R. to-morrow at 9 o'clock, and on Monday at 9 and 2.

MR. HEINS, of the Institute of Technology, while practising the running high jump on Jarvis Wednesday afternoon, fractured his right leg half-way between the knee and ankle.

THE following gentlemen have been elected to the first eight of the O. K. from '81 : Adams, Burdett, Dazey, Ludlow, C. Sprague, Suter, W. R. Thayer, M. St. C. Wright.

PROF. COOKE will give lectures, in Boylston, on Thursday evenings, at 8 o'clock, in order to complete his course to Freshmen within the prescribed time. Attendance will be voluntary.

ALL members of the Bicycle Club who wish to attend the meet at Newport, on Saturday, the 25th, should send their names to Mr. J. H. Storer, '82, Secretary of the Club, before to-morrow.

THE first ten of the Institute of 1770 from the Class of '83 is as follows : J. Lee, C. P. Curtis, J. Dorr, R. D. Winthrop, H. B. Cabot, C. P. Perin, A. C. Denniston, G. B. Morison, F. Nichols, A. H. Andrews.

TICKETS for Class Day will be ready for Seniors on May 31 and June 1. As these are the only days on which tickets are given out, and as the assessment (probably $11) must be paid on receiving the tickets, Seniors should keep these dates in mind.

THE following are the candidates selected at the preliminary trial, May 1, for the Boylston Prize Speaking, May 13. Seniors : F. H. Allen, Barrows, Bishop, Doane, Gilbert, Hatch, Henderson, Opdycke, A. Perry, W. A. Pew, Price, Rhett. Juniors : Guild, J. R. Howe, H. J. D. Jones, Porter, Reynolds, P. B. Watson, Whitman, F. S. Williams.

MR. F. S. WILLIAMS, '81, has been elected Vice-President of the Harvard Union, in place of Mr. Thorpe, L. S., who was unable to serve.

THE fifth nine of the H. P. C. from '81 are : W. H. Coolidge, MacVeagh, G. F. Morse, L. Foster, J. S. How, G. H. Williams, J. K. Mitchell, Rochester, and A. Coolidge.

A DEFINITION. "Juno, however, found out the trick that was played upon her, and punished Echo by changing her into an echo, that is, a being with no control over its tongue, which is neither able to speak before anybody else has spoken, nor to be silent when somebody else has spoken." - Smith's Class Dict.

THE Freshman nine played the Sophomores on Tuesday afternoon, but the game was interrupted at the end of the fifth inning by a heavy thunderstorm. The batting on both sides was very poor, and the fielding was little better, - '82 being credited with 6 errors, and '83 with 12.

THE question to be discussed at the next meeting of the Union is :

Resolved, That the policy of Free Trade would be more beneficial to the United States than that of Protection. Affirmative, Atkinson, '81, Waitt, '82; Negative, Henderson, '80, Guild, '81.

THE events to be contested at Mott Haven on May 29 are : 100-yards dash, 220-yards dash, 440-yards dash, 1/2-mile run, 1-mile run, 1-mile walk, standing high jump, running high jump, running long jump, standing long jump, throwing the hammer, putting the shot, 120-yards hurdle-race, pole vaulting, two-mile bicycle race, tug of war (teams of four men). All entries must be sent in to W. F. Morgan, 1 E. 40th St., New York City, on or before Saturday, May 15.

THE Natural History Society has offered three subjects for prize essays. The first is on the "Dis-semination of Seeds"; second, "Make a Collection of the Plants of one Family and note the Peculiarities of Station of each Plant"; third, "Character of Insects : Sub-orders." The prizes will be awarded, if any essays are deemed worthy of them, in January, 1881. They are : A first prize of $25 to the individual, and some seventy fossils, and ten geological models, to be deposited in his name in the school of which he is a member; a second prize of $20, and a third prize of $10. Students of either sex, who enter, attend, or graduate from public or private schools in 1880, can compete for the prizes. Address all communications and send all essays to the Secretary of the Society, William M. Davis, at Harvard College.

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