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BREVITIES.

COLUMBIA is to have a new Law School building.

THE boat-house of Wesleyan has been sold at sheriff's sale.

MARKS in History 5 were given out three days after the examination.

THE Field Meeting of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association occurs at Mott Haven, May 28.

PERMISSION for the use of Halls by societies has to be got now from the Bursar, instead of from Professor White.

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THE Yale Glee Club will give concerts in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington, and New York during their Easter trip.

YES, Cambridge is gay, and I'm asked out a great deal; as the Junior said when a card from the Dean was slipped in at the door.

THE attendance of the Faculty at church last Sunday was exceptionally large. At least six members were present. - Amherst Student.

EIGHTY students regularly attend service at St. John's Memorial Chapel, being two-thirds of all the churchmen who spend their Sundays in Cambridge.

THE Advocate asks who the officers of the Crimson are. They are as follows: President, G. E. Waring, Jr.; Vice-President, W. H. Manning; Secretary, J. W. Bowen.

THE annual dinner of the editors of the Crimson took place last Wednesday evening at Young's Hotel. About thirty gentlemen were present. Among the guests were the captains of the Crew, the Nine, and the president of the Athletic Association.

SCENE, Pike's stable. - Funny Freshman (to hostler, who is rubbing down his horse). - "Pat, I'm afraid you're currying favor with that horse."

Hostler. - "Faith, no! I'm merely scrapin' an acquaintance."

A MEMBER of the Faculty is authority for the statement that '83 is in point of scholarship the best class that has been here for years, but a most prominent member of the Faculty is also authority for the statement that '82 is the poorest.

THE music of the Greek play is written for twenty-five instruments, and will cost, including printing and the training of the orchestra, about fifteen hundred dollars. The total cost of bringing out the play will be not far from three thousand dollars. It is not impossible that one or two representations will be given in New York.

A CIVIL SERVICE REFORM ASSOCIATION has been formed at the University of Michigan.

STELLA BASBLEU, Vassar, '81, has just been relating some astounding astronomical facts and figures.

THE hundred thousand dollars for the new Law School building was given to the College under the following circumstances: President Eliot, while walking along the street in Boston, met an old gentleman well known for his liberality towards the College. As they passed each other, the old gentleman asked, seemingly in jest, "Well, what do you want now? The President replied in the same tone, "A new Law School." A few days after the President received an invitation to lunch. After taking lunch alone with his host, they sat talking about general college matters until the subject of the Law School was brought up. When asked what amount would be needed for the new building, the President named one hundred thousand. His host excused himself for a moment, and soon returned to the room with papers which gave "one hundred thousand dollars to Harvard University, for a new Law School building."

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