Lampoon out today.

Mayor Palmer dined at Memorial Hall last evening.

All borrowed books must be returned to the library before the recess.

The Co-operative Society has procured some new Christmas cards which will be on sale today.

The date on which the second Sophomore theme will be due has been postponed from Jan. 3 to Jan. 9.

Several of Mr. Herbert Spencer's works have been translated into Japanese.

The sparring at the winter meetings promises to be better than ever. There are several promising new candidates.

A bronze statue of the poet Bryant is to be erected in Central Park, New York.

The fourth volume of Dr. McCosh's Philosophic Series, entitled "Certitude, Providence and Prayer," has just been published by Charles Scribner's Sons.

Englishmen are becoming alarmed by a report that Oscar Wilde will appear as a star in the provincial theatres.

The house in which the late Professor Sophocles was born, was built by his great grandfather in 1732, and is still standing.

Mr. MacVane suggested in History 12 yesterday that the Glee Club might do worse than attempt the song that Bloudin sung to King Richard when he discovered his place of captivity.

We are glad to say that the report that Mr. Mellen, instructor of sparring at the gymnasium, was to give up his position, is entirely without foundation.

Term-bills were distributed yesterday.

Wednesday evening the Boston Wesleyan University Club gave a dinner at the Vendome, which was attended by nearly eighty graduates.

Mr. William Blaikie, the author of "How to Get Strong and How to Stay So." has just issued another book called "Sound Bodies for Our Boys and Girls."

The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament. Special subject: Hebrew History (continued). Professor Lyon. Upper Divinity Hall, 12 M.

Dr. Ritter, of Vassar College, has recently published two volumes entitled "Music in England" and "Music in America." They are of great interest and fill a need that has long been felt.

The maps procured from Washington for the use of the students in History 13 have arrived and may be obtained of the committee at the rate of six for ten cents.

The Advertiser says the Newport Daily News must be bidding for subscriptions at Yale, as it announces that six deaths from yellow fever occurred at Harvard last week.

The Hartford and Harlem have decided on a new layout, which will probably remove the road entirely from the athletic grounds towards the west. [News.

Matthew Arnold examined some of the classes in the Boston Latin School. He thought they compared well with such schools in England, and in some respects surpassed them.

The office of the Cooperative Societu, will be open from one to four o'clock P. M. only, of each day next week. On Christmas and New Year's days it will not be open.

Veterinary education has received another boom, following close on the establishment of a department in the science at Harvard. Mr. J. B. Lippincott, of Philadelphia, has offered $10,000 to the veterinary department of the University of Pennsylvania on condition that $15,000 additional be subscribed by others.

Students of English 2 will be interested to learn of the publication of a pamphlet on the Shakspeare-Bacon controversy by the distinguished Shaksperean scholar, Dr. E. Engel. He severely ridicules the writings of Miss Delia Bacon and Miss Pott, and classes them with the recent discovery that Hamlet was a woman in disguise.