The second Lyceum Hall assembly occurs tonight.
A meeting of the overseers occurs today at 11 o'clock.
There will be an examination in Chemistry 2 today.
All but nine of the present senior class at Exeter come to Harvard '87.
The Pierian and Glee Club concert at Andover will be given Friday, Jan. 12th.
No instructor has been as yet appointed to succeed Professor Holmes at the Law School.
The entrance condition examination for French and German will be held at 4 P. M. today in U. 2.
The Pierian contemplate giving a concert in Bangor, Me., within a short time, and also one at Portland.
Prof. Sargent's lecture on "The General Structure of the Body" occurs at 2 P. M. today in Sever 11.
The examination in Political Economy III. will be held Thursday, Feb. 8, at a place to be hereafter designated.
Yale was not through any of its papers represented at the Press Association meeting at New York. Yale was not interested.
A. M. Lord, '83, has a lengthy review of Heine as a literary critic of German poetry in a late number of the Boston Transcript.
Soule & Bugbee, the Boston law book publishers, are publishing a periodical, "Legal Bibliography," which they are mailing to the students of the Law School.
The Assyrian reading by Prof. Lyon, at 7.30 P. M. today in Sever 11, will be on the special subject : "Selections from the Historical Records of the Last Assyrian Dynasty, about 720-605 B. C."
The rooms of the St. Paul's Society, 17 Gray's, have been refitted, and meetings will begin again on Wednesday, January 10, at 7 P. M. The Rev. Percy Browne of Roxbury will then address the society on "The Limitations of Doubt."
Johns Hopkins has secured, through the liberality of prominent Germans of Baltimore, Dr. Bluntchlis' library, one of the best collections of international law in the world.
Dr. Wadsworth lectures at 2 P. M. today, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, on "The General and Microscopic Characters of Garnet, Epidote, Nephelite, Apatite, Hauynite, and Nosite."
The N. Y. Post says, in regard to the Agassiz Museum : "By the purchase of the large Schary collection of Bohemian Silurian fossils, and by its own rich amassing in the West and Southwest during the year, the museum now contains one of the finest collections of palaeozoic fossil invertebrates in existence."
A large audience listened to Prof. Cooke's interesting lecture on "Egyptian Antiquities" last evening. The new electric light showed the views to much better advantage than in previous lectures. The special subject was the Necropolis of Thebes, and its tombs and temples were graphically illustrated.
The informal meeting for general discussion of geological subjects occurs today in Sever 7, from 4 to 5 o'clock. The subject for discussion is : "Physical Condition of a Glacial Climate." Present and past members of geological electives are invited to take part.
The following numbers of "Handbook of Developing Exercises" are ready at the gymnasium office : 1328, 1329, 1342, 1245, 1303, 1348, 869, 921, 117, 764, 702, 1018, 711, 972, 860, 852, 975, 1187, 1378, 1374, 1369, 1370, 1366, 1359, 1352, 1355, 1375.
The Harvard Advocate recommends that their eleven henceforth play the "Yale game." The "Yale game," so far as we can make out from reports of the games recently played, consists in strict adherence to the following rule : "Kill only when absolutely necessary ; in ordinary cases mutilate." - [Argonaut.
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