Mr. W. C. Wait, '82, has entered the Law School.

W. R. Thayer, '81, has an article in the last Continent on "Pessimism of Leopardi."

President Eliot is to speak at the dinner of the Boston Bar Association Tuesday evening.

More ground has been covered in Mathematic 1, so far this year, than in previous years.

Dr. Sargent lectured before the Christian Union in Boston last night on "Bathing; its Uses and Abuses."

Members of History 13 will be allowed fifteen minutes before the examination begins today, in order to read over the examination paper.

Members of History 14 who neglected to bring in blue-books at the last recitation will bring them to the recitation room this morning.

Professor J. W. Fewkes, Ph. D., of the Museum of Comparative Zoology has given two lectures on "Jelly Fishes" at the Lowell Institute.

The freshman advanced maximum sections will take up Greek composition in a short time, but the other maximum sections will omit the exercises this year.

The Scribners have published a cheap edition of Plato's "Socrates : Apology, Crito, and Parts of the Phaedo," with an introduction by Professor W. W. Goodwin.

The secretary of the boat club has received the Yale letter, and it has been under consideration by the executive and graduate committees. A reply to it has been drafted and approved by the members of the two committees present at the meeting.

An editorial in the Boston Advertiser says : "For instance, too much Spanish mackerel palls, gallons of toothsome terrapin congest spleens, and chicken liver en brochette in incessant doses have been known to discomfit the digestion of even a Harvard boy." The writer probably has dined at Memorial.

In about two weeks Mr. Moses King will publish Mr. F. W. Taussig's Toppan prize essey on "Protection to young Industries." It will make a volume of about 100 pages.

Has Harvard College the right to run a stable is the important question before the committee on health in Boston. The college authorities desire to erect a stable for disabled horses in connection with the Veterinary School, but certain persons object to this extension of college duties.

The registrar declares that the examination in freshman Algebra for May 5 will in all probability not be postponed. The class races, therefore, unless this decision is changed, will have to be held May 12, or else, if the permission of the faculty can be obtained, on some day during the week between the two dates.

The following table shows the condition of the department of political economy during the past decade :

No. No. No.

Year. Prof. Inst'r. st'ds. c's. h'r.

1873-74, C. F. Dunbar, Henry Howland. 71 3 5

1874-75 C. F. Dunbar, - - - - 131 3 7

1875-76 C. F. Dunbar, - - - - 156 3 7

1876-77 C. F. Dunbar, S. M. Macvane 128 2 6

1877-78 C. F. Dunbar, S. M. Macvane 136 2 6

1878-79 C. F. Dunbar, Dr. J. L. Laughlin 158 2 5

1879-80 C. F. Dunbar, Dr. J. L. Laughlin 153 4 9

1880-81 C. F. Dunbar, Dr. J. L. Laughlin 134 4 9

1881-82 C. F. Dunbar, Dr. J. L. Laughlin 156 3 7

2882-83 (absent) and F. W. Tausig 210 3 7

A university feud between Konigsburg and Heidelburg, was settled last month at Berlin by duels between three delegates, without seconds, from each university. Konigsburg won, having drawn blood fourteen times. Delegates from all the universities watched the proceedings. The affair is reported without comment by the German papers. [London News.