Marks in freshman physics are out. They run exceptionally low.

The freshmen played a scrub nine, mostly from '83 and '84, yesterday, on Holmes field.

Matches between the Yale and Atlantics will be played at New Haven today and tomorrow.

Professor William James contributes an article "On some Hegelisms" to "Mind" for April.

We learn from an esteemed contemporary that "there is talk of changing the college colors at Harvard."

The annual session of the National Academy of Sciences began yesterday in Washington. Professors Agassiz, Gibbs and Gray attended.

The freshman examination in algebra (3 hours), will take place May 6th. Blank-books must be handed in at next week's recitations.

Mr. E. J. Wendell had the misfortune yesterday to receive a severe sprain, which may incapacitate him from running in the class races.

The Glee Club did not give a concert in Salem last evening as was announced, but will give one in that city next Friday evening. It is reported that the Glee Club will sing at Exeter and Providence in a short time.

Two hundred and seventy-four applications for rooms were made at the bursar's office. The result was posted yesterday afternoon, and was surrounded by an interested crowd until taken in. The first room drawn was Thayer 31, by W. B. Rand, '85. '85 seemed to be the favorite in the drawing.

A story is told in the Harvard Lyceum (1810) of a debate on the question whether an "intemperate use of tobacco or of ardent liquors were the more pernicious?" After a long and acrimonious dispute, the votary of Bacchus gained the victory by adducing the testimony of Scripture in support of his assertions : "Are we not told," said he, "that 'it is not that which goeth into the mouth which defileth a man, but that which cometh out of his mouth, this defileth a man.'"

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.