Meeting of the directors of Memorial at 6.15 tonight.

Buchman, formerly of '83, was in Cambridge yesterday.

Manning, '82, is engaged in the lumber business in northern Michigan.

The nine began practising in the gymnasium yesterday under Capt. Crocker.

There was no recitation in N. H. 6 yesterday. Mr. Faxon will meet the section tomorrow at 10 A. M.

Mr. H. T. Allen, '86, who was obliged to leave college in October, on account of injury to his eyes, has returned.

During the recess some thief stole from one of the rooms in Hollis a watch which had been left that day in a drawer.

There will be a meeting of the senior crew in 60 Thayer this evening at 7.30 sharp. All members are requested to be present.

Mr. Charles Birtwell, '82, has been obliged to discontinue his studies on account of ill health, and is spending the winter in St. Nicholas, Florida.

Prof. J. P. Cooke has located his dynamo machine in the basement of Boylston, and will use it to run an electric light to illuminate Boylston Hall.

At the convention of Massachusetts teachers held during the recess, Prof. J. W. White read a very able production on "The realistic side of Greek literature."

Mr. B. M. Firman, '82, is reporting the doings of the Massachusetts Legislature for the Springfield Republican. Mr. Firman is now on the editorial staff of that paper.

Prof. Wm. Cook, has adopted a new system in German 6. Instead of hearing lesson read by the students, as has hitherto been his custom, he asks and answers questions on the text.

It is said that great alarm is manifesed in certain quarters lest Ben Butler will carry his power as governor to the extent of insisting upon taxing Harvard College. Gov. Butler might not be made an LL. D. if he should.

A new comic paper, rival of Puck and The Judge, will soon be started in New York. A paper of that city says: "New York will be supposed to supply the readers, and Boston, or rather Harvard, the wits." - [Traveller.

Among the list of contributors given in the prospectus of the Nation for 1883 there are thirty-five writers from Harvard. These writers are designated as connected with Harvard University, while those from Yale are published as connected with Yale College.

The University Crew took their first practice pull in the gymnasium yesterday, rowing only one hundred strokes. The following-named men occupied the places: Stroke, Curtis; 7, Clarke; 6, Hammond; 5, Belshaw; 4, Gilman; 3, Cabot; 2, Hutchinson; bow, Mumford. Cabot filled Perkins' place temporarily, owing to the latter's illness. Sawyer probably will not begin to row for some time.

The meeting of delegates to form a permanent organization for arranging inter-collegiate boat races, was held in New York December 28. It was fixed that the race to take place on the fourth of July, 1883, on Lake George, should be for four oared shells, one and a half miles, straight away. Trainers professional or otherwise, may be employed by the crews. The following were elected officers for the ensuing year: H. B. Swarthwood of Cornell, president; F. G. Hunter of the University of Pennsylvania, vice-president; George C. Howell of Princeton, treasurer.