There will be no lecture in History 11 Thursday.

Moses King will soon publish a "Handbook of Cambridge."

The elective in Italian 1 began Manzoni's "I Promessi Sposi" yesterday.

The Graphic wants Sullivan made professor of pygmachology at Harvard.

Some Harvard men are acting as "supes" with Mary Anderson this week.

Mr. G. S. Hall has recently been lecturing at Johns Hopkins University.

Hon. J. Warren Merrill and wife are obliged to go South on account of sickness.

The man who blows the cornet in Holyoke really is quite toot-tone-y for any use.

Seniors of a poetical turn are reminded of the competition for writing the class song.

A compassionate senior lately lent his goody his rubbers during one day of the thaw.

Gautier's "Le Capitaine Fracasse" will be used in French 5 during the second half-year.

The instructors have been obligingly prompt in returning the marks from the semi-annual examinations.

Marks have been given out in History 4, 7, 8; Philosophy 3 and 4; Latin 1; Natural History 2, 3, 5 and 7.

The next half-year in Fine Arts 3 will be devoted to Athens, her rise and supremacy, with special attention to her art.

In the next Atlantic O. W. Holmes and J. G. Whittier will have poems, and E. E. Hale and Prof. Shaler prose articles.

Among other compliments paid to '82, Prof. Paine has said it is the most musical class he has known for a number of years.

The coffee party of the Pierian Sodality will be given next Tuesday evening, instead of Monday, as announced in yesterday's issue.

H. N. Hudson, editor of the "Harvard Shakespere," is writing a life of Webster, which will be published by Little, Brown & Co.

J. P. Mahaffy, author of the "History of Greek Literature," is said to have been one of the best cricket players at Trinity College, Dublin, twenty years ago.

The public was informed by yesterday's Advertiser that among the contributors to Moses King's "Poets' Tributes to Garfield," is "Mr. Lotus Dyer."

It is rumored that a well-known professor recently discovered a papyrus manuscript of the Iliad of the date 308 B. C., in an Athenian monastery.

An English writer states that Washington's "oak," Cambridge, is so called because "the father of his country signed the Declaration of Independence under it."

The concert given last evening by the Cambridge Orchestral Society was a complete success. The soloists were Messrs. H. F. Knowles and Nat. Brigham. Mr. Brigham received two encores.

The Princeton Base-ball Club is in hard training under Capt. Rafferty, '82. Eighteen men are training, of whom four are from '85. Their grounds have been recently graded and a quarter-mile track added.

Professor Sargent's lectures, which are to be held in the meeting-room of the gymnasium every Tuesday at 2 P. M., will undoubtedly be very interesting and instructive. The first lecture, given yesterday afternoon, was on "Physical Examinations," and will be followed by others on "Exercise," "Diet," "Bathing," "The Uses of the Gymnasium," and "The Value of Special Exercises." The lectures will be very practical, and will be illustrated by charts and the human figure. We advise all to attend.

Mr. Gummere has given out the marks of his sections in the mid-year examination of sophomore prescribed rhetoric. His sections read on Tuesdays Milton's "Areopagitica."

The library of R. D. Child, of Boston, is to be sold at auction, commencing at 10 o'clock this forenoon, at No. 2 Beacon street. It contains many scarce Americana; including Barlow's "Columbiad;" "George Bancroft's Poems," published at Cambridge, 1823; Eliot's and Pierce's "Histories of Harvard College;" and Harvard Catalogues, 1642 to 1800.

FURNITURE. Parlor, chamber, dining-room, library and office furniture. An immense stock in the warerooms of PAINE'S manufactory, 48 Canal street, opposite Boston and Maine depot.