Mr. F. W. Putnam lectures at the Peabody Museum at 3 P. M. today on "The exploration of a group of altar mounds in the valley of the Little Miami river, Ohio."

The coming of the Christmas season is announced by the usual number of circulars distributed in the college rooms. A very neat calendar was given out yesterday by Amee Brothers.

Princeton also is agitating co-operation and hopes to see it adopted there, since Harvard's experiment proves so much of a success.

Mr. Fred Balch, assistant steward of Memorial, left Cambridge yesterday to accept a position under the Pullman Palace Car Co. He will make his headquarters in Montreal.

Prof. Lyon lectures at 12 M. today in Divinity Hall Upper Lecture Room, on Assyrian Antiquities. The special subject is: The Izdubar Legends (continued). Chaldean Account of the Deluge.

Sophomore Rhetoric examination. - The Monday sections (Mr. Drennan's I. and II.) in Upper Mass.; Section III., which recites Friday, 10 to 11 (Mr. Wendell's), in U. E. R.; Section IV., which recites Friday, 11 to 12 (Mr. Wendell's), in Lower Mass.