The second Armory Hall assembly occurs tonight.

The first Curtis Hall (Jamaica Plain) german was given last night.

Mr. Henry James, father of Prof. William James, is seriously ill.

The North-avenue and Spark-street cars to Park square have been discontinued.

The Niagara Index makes the astonishing announcement that "Greek is optional at Harvard."

There will be no recitations in Latin I. and IV. tomorrow, as Prof. Smith will be out of Cambridge.

Dr. Dudley A. Sargent will contribute to Wide Awake for 1883 a series of "Health and Strength Papers."

The receipts at the Globe Theatre during Mrs. Langtry's two weeks' engagement were twenty-nine thousand dollars.

The busy Xmas season does not seem to keep visitors from Memorial Hall, which remains a centre of attraction to all strangers.

A SUSPICIOUS TINT.They told the preacher his words were dull,

And colorless the prayer he said.

The Ma-Jestic Deluder replied, "Not so,

For my prayers are brilliantly read."

Prof. J. P. Cooke lectures tonight at 7.30 in Boylston Hall, on "Egypt and her Monuments." The lecture is illustrated by stereopticon.

The Mueller-Campanari String Quartette give their second chamber concert tonight at 8 o'clock in Sever 11. The programme is as follows: Quartette in C Major, Mozart; Variations on Austrian Hymn, Haydn; Quartette in B flat Major, Op. 130, Beethoven.

Instead of Prof. Hill's lecture in Sophomore Rhetoric Thursday, Dec. 21, at 2 P. M., there will be a one-hour examination. The Monday sections (Mr. Drennan's I. and II.) will meet in Upper Mass.; Section III., which recites Friday, 10 to 11, (Mr. Wendell's) will meet in U. E. R.; Section IV., which recites Friday, 11 to 12 (Mr. Wendell's), will meet in Lower Mass.

Mr. E. T. Cabot was yesterday elected captain of the senior crew, vice Mr. Burch, resigned.

Professor Pennell, of Phillips Exeter Academy, has handed in his resignation, to take effect at the end of the present term.

Hobart Ladies' College in Tasmania, Australasia, is advertising for a lady principal. Now is a chance for the annex maiden.

Professor Dole, according to an interview published in the Yale News, "began his college career (!) in the winter of '45-6 at Harvard."

They have a special class of examinations at London University, called "external." opened to those not connected with the university.

A sophomore who evidently does not belong to the Harvard Total Abstinence Society, recently sent down an order at Memorial for the brandy that wasn't in the pudding sauce.

A number of associations auxiliary to the Longfellow Memorial Association of Cambridge are being organized throughout the country. Last week influential associations were formed in San Francisco and Baltimore.

Princeton hopes, through MacKintosh, who has entered the college from Lafayette, to take some firsts in running at the next Mott Haven meeting. She considers Brooks of Yale, and Baker, '86, of Harvard her chief competitors.

George M. Hendee, the sixteen-year-old bicycling phenomenon, contemplates going to England in the spring with a view to getting races with wheelmen there. He stands 5 feet 10 1/2 inches in height, and weighs 156 lbs. Mr. Hendee is to enter Yale shortly.

The "Seminary of Our Lady of Angels" seems to have lost its good opinion of Harvard, on account of the character of the prescribed English examination required here. The paper of the seminary calls the pure air of Cambridge "the infidelity-breathing atmosphere of Harvard."

"Grammar," says the News, "is one of the most popular of Harvard's electives." Our E. C. should not omit to state that reading, writing and arithmetic are also popular here.