Holden Chapel was built in 1744.

The early recitations Monday morning were thinly attended.

There will be no examinations today for the freshmen.

The ten page thesis in Fine Arts 3 must be handed in this week.

Rev. Phillips Brooks lectured before the St. Paul's Society last evening.

The vacation at Yale extends from Dec. 22, to Jan. 8th.

The examinations in English 9, elocution, will probably take place before the semi-annual.

The Latin School dinner occurred last night and proved a very enjoyable affair.

Sections, 2, 3, and 4 of sophomore rhetoric will have examinations today in place of recitations.

Dr. Sargent delivered an interesting lecture Monday evening in Union Hall upon the subject of walking.

The city of Washington has Princeton, Dartmouth and Bowdoin alumni clubs.

Professor Lovering will lecture upon Electricity and Magnetism today at 11 A. M. in Harvard 3.

The Christmas cards, which the Cooperative Society has on sale, will be returned today.

"The Foot-ball Record for '83, and Past Seasons" by W. C. Camp, Yale. '82, is in press.

The Index is now on sale at Sever's, Amee's, Brock and Leavitt's and the Cooperative Society, and at A. Williams and Co. in Boston. The price is 35 cents, as last year.

Since 1873 over half a million dollars have been expended for the collection and buildings of the Agassiz Museum.

Drury, the well-known tobacconist of Harvard Square has failed in business.

There will be an important meeting of the '84, Pi Eta society at the rooms this evening.

It is a fact that every Chinese officer is required to be an accomplished athlete.

Mr. Arthur Anderson Brooks will deliver a Christmas sermon in Divinity Chapel this evening at 7.30.

The section in Eng. 9 which recites from 11 to 12 will have no more recitations until after the recess.

The funeral of the late Professor Sophocles will take place today in Appleton Chapel at 1.30.

The graduates of Harvard who reside in Washington are to form a Harvard Club. Hon. Geo. Bancroft, '17, the historian, will be the first president.

There will be a half hour examination in Greek 7 next Saturday on the last half of AEschines' Oration against Ctesiphon.

George William Harris, Ph. D., has been appointed acting librarian of Cornell University to fill the vacancy left by Professor Willard Fiske.

The faculty is expected to discuss very soon the question of doing away with the Greek as a requirement of admission to college. Prof. John Williams White will oppose the abolition of such a requirement.

The Reading Room is now open. It is situated in the old Law School building, Dane Hall, in the room directly above that occupied by the Cooperative Society. The list of papers and periodicals there to be found is as follows: Boston Advertiser, Herald, Globe, Transcript, Traveller, Saturday Evening Gazette; New York Herald, Tribune, Times, Post, Truth; Springfield Republican; London Punch, Graphic, Illustrated News and Weekly Times; The Graphic, Life, Clipper, Turf, Field and Farm, Spirit of the Times; The Modern Age, Progress, Puck; New Haven Union; Good Literature. This list will soon be enlarged. The Reading Room is indebted to the HERALD-CRIMSON for several of the above papers. All the college exchanges, by courtesy of the Advocate, will soon be put in the room.