April 5 has been selected by the governor for Fast Day.

There will be a debate at the rooms of the Institute of 1770 tomorrow (Tuesday) evening at 7.30.

The last Spirit of the Times contains a half-column communication from Yale College on the game of "American vingt et-un."

There will be an important meeting of the directors of the Bicycle Club this evening at 7 o'clock, No. 1 Holworthy. A full attendance is desired.

All members of the Pierian are expected to be present tonight, as, besides the regular rehearsal, there is some business of importance to be acted upon.

A Law School student, a graduate of '81, has been for some time engaged in writing a life of Marcus Aurelius, which will soon be ready for publication.

What sanguinary person haunts Memorial Hall. Every week a notice is posted advising students to "take Life from the boy in the auditor's room."

The third lecture on the "History of Tariff Legislation" will be given by Mr. Taussig in Sever 11 at 7.30 P. M. today. The lecture will cover the period 1832-1860.

Orders for class pictures of the senior class must be handed in by Thursday, March 1st, to insure delivery of the same by June 10th, the date contracted for.

R. B. MOFFATT.The annual meeting and supper of the Harvard Club in Maine was held at the Falmouth Hotel, Portland, Thursday evening. Rev. Dr. Hill, ex-president of Harvard, presided.

Professor Palmer occupied most of the hour in Philosophy III. Saturday in reading a brilliant article in the Berkley Magazine for 1882, from the pen of Prof. Royce, on "Pessimisms in Modern Thought."

However much the university may grow, the north-east corner of Holmes field is safe from any encroachment for building purposes. Every one has noticed the muddy character of the soil there, but probably few have known the reason of it. That corner of the ground is, in fact, a rich peat-field, and if worked would doubtless yield no small returns. This fact, however, renders it unfit for holding the foundations of a building, so that athletics if finally, in the coming centuries, pinned down to that section, will be sure of one safe refuge from the advances of the mason and the carpenter.

The first of Prof. Sumner's series of articles on "What Social Classes owe to Each Other," appears in the last Harper's Weekly. The special title of this article is, "On a New Philosophy: That Poverty is the best Policy."

Among the list of men recently admitted to the Massachusetts bar appear the names of the following '79 men: George D. Ayers, Robert P. Clapp, Fred'k H. Ellis, Chas. S. Hanks, George C. Hodges, Thomas J. Homer, Frank A. Houston, Francis Martin, Henry C. Mulligan (class orator), and William C. Tarbell.

Dr. Sargent in his lecture on "Training," at Union Hall, Boston, last week, said, that not only had overwork a bad effect, but nervous exhaustion was quite as bad, and it was on account of this latter that the difficulty in regard to the university boat race had been so long unsettled between Harvard and Yale, as, if all preliminaries of the race were not settled before the day of rowing, it would tend to a nervousness which would probably effect the result. As regards food, Dr. Sargent said he would give a man to eat what his natural appetite craved, but the kind of food depended on what he had to do. Beef and mutton were the foundation of the diet, and oat meal, graham bread, cracked wheat and vegetables were all good, but pastry, condiments and made dishes should never be used. He believed in letting a man drink all the cold water a systematic thirst required, and that if it was really necessary to reduce the weight of a man and get the fat off him, it must be done by diet and exercise, for all the sweating in the world would not take off fat. The use of alcohol was condemned, and by its use Dr. Sargent said men had put a stigma on athletics which it would take centuries to wipe out. In the New England climate he thought a little lager beer was good, and would do far less hurt than coffee, but notwithstanding there was a conflict of opinion as to the use of tobacco, he opposed its use in any form, believing it far more injurious than beneficial.

There are 1493 students now enrolled in the various department of Oberlin College.