Postals have been sent to the members of '86 by the president of the H. A. A. requesting that, if they have had any experience in or have any desire to participate in track athletics, they enter for some event in the fall freshman athletic meeting.

The 'Varsity Eleven will probably play a practice game Saturday afternoon with a team composed of graduates: Those who were present at the game with the graduates last fall will look for a lively contest. Let us all turn out and encourage the team.

In the sophomore readings for the Lee prizes last night, the prizes were awarded as follows: G. R. Nutter, $35; M. J. Stone, $35; E. J. Weld, $35; M. J. Henderson, $20; E. B. Young, $20. The judges were President Eliot, Dean Smith, Profs. Hill and Thayer, and Messrs. Curtis, Hawes, Tiffany, Grant and Winsor.

At a meeting of the Finance Club last evening the following named officers were elected: President, Mr. Frank Taussig; secretary and treasurer, Mr. Samuel Norris; executive committee, Mr. Frank Taussig, Mr. Fletcher Ranney, Mr. A. C. Denniston; lecture committee, Dr. J. L. Laughlin, Mr. Samuel Norris, Mr. G. H. Heilbron.

The first drawing in the singles of the tennis tournament for this afternoon is as follows: Le Moyne vs. Sexton; Rathbone vs. Cole; Gardner vs. Mandell; Agassiz vs. Goodwin; Denniston vs. Perkins; Bacon vs. Clark; Bird vs. Taylor; Winslow vs. Codman; Butler vs. Simes; Warren vs. Beals. These sets will be played off in the courts near the society building this afternoon, the weather permitting. Doubles will be played later.

At the Harvard Union debate on the river and harbor bill last evening Messrs. Wigmore, '83, and Hibbard, '84, were the regular speakers in the affirmative, and Messrs. Barnes, '84, and Loeb, '83, in the negative. Mr. Barnes, '84, was appointed on the reading room committee, vice Mr. S. N. Hayes, '84, resigned. Resolutions were adopted on the death of Mr. G. C. Van Benthuysen, '82. Sixteen men joined the Union after its adjournment. The next debate will be on the candidacy of Gen. Butler.

The Harvard ('86) correspondent of the Phillipian, says: "The thing which is the strangest to our 'freshman understanding' is the absolute freedom. After leaving Andover we hardly know what to do with ourselves, unless we hear the quarter of eight bell strike, to warn us to our rooms. Another change which, though strange, is pleasant, is the step from Andover clubs or boarding-houses to the magnificent dining-hall at 'Memorial.' I say 'magnificent,' begging all pardon for speaking differently from Clarence Cook in his article published in the North American Review.