Yale's new heliometer gave very satisfactory results in its operations on the late transit.

Weather permitting, the hare and hounds run, postponed from yesterday, will take place today at 3.15 P.M.

The first car on the Charles-river R. R. went to Boston at 6 P.M. last evening, via Bowdoin square.

Mr. Evert J. Wendell, '82, is spending the winter in Europe and is at present in Germany.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will have a lacrosse team in the field in the spring. H. D. Bennett is captain.

"Prof. Norton, of Cambridge," says Harpers Weekly, "is probably the highest authority in the country on the subject of ancient art."

The Catalogue will be out Monday. The Dental and Medical School catalogues, a separate edition of which has been issued, are already out.

The following-named officers have been elected in the Signet from '84 : President, J. Prentiss; secretary, A. G. Hatch; treasurer, C. M. Walsh.

The transit of Venus excited the greatest enthusiasm among the students of Trinity College where the German astronomers were located, cheers being given for all parties concerned.

Judge Samuel F. Worcester, exmember of Congress from Ohio, died December 6. He was a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1830, having been a classmate of Charles Sumner.

In the observations of the transit Wednesday at the Harvard Observatory Professor Pickering with his assistants were able to produce the finest effects obtained any where on the Atlantic coast.

Prof. J. W. White announced to the section in Greek IX. yesterday that he intended to place in Sever 28 a number of reference books pertaining to the course. He invited all members of the elective to use the room as a study, as it would be more retired than the alcove in the library and would contain most of the books that they could wish to consult.

A foot-ball match between the Naval Academy Team and the Clifton Club of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., was among the sports indulged in at Annapolis, Md., on Thanksgiving Day. The result was in favor of the cadets, the score being 2 to 0.

The section in Greek IX. finished the study of the "Persians" of AEschylus yesterday, by reading the play to the instructor. The next play to be taken up is the "OEdipus Tyrannus" to be followed by the "Frogs" of Aristophanes.

The work on the window which is to be put into Memorial Hall by the class of 1880, has been repeatedly delayed by the sickness of Mr. LaFarge, who is the artist employed, but it is probable that the window will be in place before the end of the college year. The subjects selected are Homer and Virgil.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra gave its second concert in Sanders Theatre last evening, to a large and appreciative audience. It was of a somewhat more popular character than the first. The following programme was presented :

Prelude (Meluabre) Grammann

Cavatina (Freischutz) Weber

Symphony No. 3, E flat (Eroica) Beethoven

Serenade for Strings Volkmann

Air (Acteon) Auber

Overture (Academic Festival) Brahms

The lacrosse team were photographed Wednesday.

London medical students resented the other day the arrest of one of their number who was charged with stealing a book from a hospital. At the Guildhall police court a crowd of students assembled, and by yells and other expressions of interest attracted an extra force of policemen. When the court was opened the proceedings were threatened with a sudden termination, but the judge abmonished the young men, and quiet was restored.