The Freshman nine will begin practice in the cage shortly.

The order of the mid-year examination has been posted.

The invitations for the Curtis Hall Germans are out.

Subjects for the third junior theme will be announced today.

Mr. Matthew Arnold visited the college yesterday and attended prayers with President Eliot.

All the Extra Lampoon issue has been exhausted and yet many men have been unable to obtain copies.

The first forensic will be returned to seniors (McDuffie to Ziegler) today, from 2 to 3.30 P. M. in Sever 1.

Mr. Snow will meet the senior volunteer section in forensics today at 3.30 P. M. in Sever 11.

There will be a meeting of the college faculty today in University 5. at 3.30 P. M.

Mr. Wendell will meet all sections in junior themes in Sever 11, today at 2 o'clock, to discuss the subjects for Theme III.

German Readings this evening (With explanations in German.) For advanced students. Wieland's Oberon. Mr.Lutz. Sever 6, 7.30 P. M.

Mr. Preble desires that the members of Latin 2, should bring in their blue books today, for the one hour examination which will take place on Dec. 6, or else leave them in Matthew 7.

"The relations which members of the House hold, and the functions which they discharge, towards their constituents and their party." James Bryce, Esq., M. P.. Sanders Theatre, 7.30 P. M. this evening.

Now that the foot-ball season is over the gymnasium is beginning to fill up rapidly, and soon the class crews will begin work.

A posthumus essay by Darwin on the "Evolution of Instinct" has been found among his papers. It is a splendid example of exhaustive induction, and will be read at a meeting of the Linnxan Society.

A man has walked 10 miles in 1 hr. 17 m. 40 3-4 sec.; a man has run the same distance in 57 m. 26 sec.; a horse has trotted 10 miles in 28 m. 3 1-2 sec,; and a man has ridden a bicycle 10 miles in 29 m. 22 sec.

James Bryce, Esq., M. P., lectured last evening before a large audience in Sanders Theatre, on the Election methods in Great Britain. Reports of both yesterday's and tonight's lecture will appear in tomorrow's HERALD-CRIMSON.

The date for the annual convention of the intercollegiate press association, which is this year to be held in Cambridge, will soon be determined on and will be duly announced in these columns.

A handicap race was recently decided near London, in which the handicap was by weight instead of the usual style. The weights ranged from thirty pounds downwards, and no stipulation was made as to the manner in which they should be carried, but the majority of the competitors carried them knapsack tashion across their backs. The new style was voted a success.

It is a singular fact that the important subject of hygiene has never, until now, been included in the curriculum of the Harvard Medical School, which may rightfully lay claim to being considered the first institution of the kind in the country. The omission is the more remarkable in view of the fact that in some of the Western States, where medical practitioners are obliged to secure a license from the State before practising in it, proficiency in hygiene is prescribed as one of the requisites for admission to practice; so that a graduate of the Harvard Medical School hitherto might justly be exclude from the profession in any of these States. This recognition of the importance of a proper training in sanitary science comes none too soon, and the Harvard Medical School is fortunate in securing so practical and accomplished a lecturer on the subject as Dr. Samuel H. Durgin, chairman of the city Board of Health. [Ex.