All who desire to try for the '82 tug-of-war team will meet in the meeting-room of the gymnasium Wednesday afternoon at 4.15.
The smoking cars begin running this morning. A car will leave Harvard square at 6.39 A. M., and every half hour thereafter until 7.09 P. M.
The next meeting of the Finance Club will be held in Sever 15 tomorrow at 7.30. Mr. F. W. Taussig will read a paper-subject not announced.
We learn from the News Letter, of Iowa College, that "Miss King of Cambridge is preparing to publish soon in a little volume the poetical tributes to the late President Garfield."
The advanced section in Freshman Greek will begin the "Clouds" of Aristophanes next week. Felton's edition is recommended, or Koch's for those who can read German notes.
The last of the "Cambridge Assemblies" will take place tonight at Armory Hall, Cambridge. It will probably be kept up very late, owing to the Pierian and Glee Club concert, which takes place the same evening.
Prof. Goodwin has received a Greek newspaper, saying that it is a shame that barbarians as far off as in America should produce a Greek play, while modern Athens has no theatre in which the old classical Greek plays may be produced.
In an interesting letter in yesterday's Advertiser "A. A. H." discusses the value of the Harvard Club of New York as a factor in social life of the metropolis. Great expectations are entertained of the coming banquet of the club. The club now contains about 270 members.
Mr. Moses King has in press a little book, entitled "Cambridge in 1882." It contains a great deal of condensed information about the city and the college. It serves the double purpose of being a complete guide to the city and a pleasant little souvenir for strangers and citizens. The price, like the book itself, is small, only ten cents.
In one of his lectures before the Lowell Institute, Prof. Byrce took occasion to praise in the highest terms the work of an American institution-Roberts College at Constantinople. It has also been highly commended by the American minister to Turkey. Representatives of that college are now in Boston, seeking funds to enlarge the endowment, and a meeting was held Saturday for that purpose.
John Langdon Sibley, the venerable librarian emeritus, is now, in his seventy-fifth year, at work on the third volume of his "Harvard Graduates." If any one deserves the encouragement and the gratitude of Harvard men, it is Mr. Sibley, who, after publishing the two preceding volumes of this work without deriving returns sufficient to pay the actual cost of printing, is undertaking the third volume. These biographical sketches are the result of nearly fifty years devoted service in the interests of the university.
"Each man at Harvard is assigned a subject on which to lecture the class." The above item has arrived from Grinnell, Iowa, where it appeared in the News Letter.
FURNITURE. The largest assortment of Parlor, Chamber and Dining Room Suits ever offered in Boston is now being placed in Paine's Warerooms, 48 Canal street, opposite Boston and Maine depot.