Lost - A black music-roll, containing valuable private papers. A liberal reward will be paid for its immediate return to the office of the Co-operative Society.

At the meeting of the senior crew last evening Mr. Cabot was elected captain.

W. M. Morgan is captain of the Dartmouth nine for the coming season.

The Cricket Club is to begin regular practice in the gymnasium after the semis.

The dense smoke issuing from Boylston Hall yesterday was only the result of a slight accident.

Prof. Peirce will shortly give his sections in Freshman Trigonometry an hour examination.

The canvassing committee of the Longfellow Memorial Association have been very successful with '86.

The price of Henry Norman's book on the Greek Play at Harvard has been reduced from $2.50 to $1.00.

The item headed "Modesty" in yesterday's HERALD should of course have been credited to the Yale News.

Pierian Sodality meeting at 8 Weld, 2 P. M., on business that will not bear postponing.

M. L. BRADFORD,Secretary.The New York Times speaks of "Mr. George Riddle, the master of elocution at Harvard, the fine and scholarly impersonator of the Greek OEdipus, and the most delightful and versatile reader in New England today."

The Charles-River Railroad have adopted an excellent way of designating the horse-ears on the different routes. On the top of the cars in front are placed large wooden balls, and the colors of these balls show the route of the cars. The Union Railway should adopt some similar method.

The rumor about a new dormitory for Harvard, which has been published in many papers, is entirely without foundation. It owes its origin to the Hastings bequest, which was made several years ago, with the stipulation that not more than $250,000 of that bequest should be expended on some new building. That building is not necessarily to be a dormitory, and morever the funds from the bequest will not be available for some time to come.

Mr. Richmond will not spar in the winter meeting this year. It is to be hoped that Messrs. Lee, Biddle and Pendleton, who made the middle-weight sparring so interesting last year, will decide to enter again this year.

"Very little interest seems to be taken by the college in the Yale race correspondence, but it is due to the fact that no one doubts the ultimate adjustment of the difficulties on an honorable basis. Should the challenge actually be declined by Harvard, the apparent apathy would be broken," says the Advertiser's Harvard correspondent.

The good sense of one of Harvard's most popular professors was shown last week in an examination where there were over two hundred men. Instead of employing proctors to watch the men, he put them on their honor, remaining himself for the sole purpose of answering questions. When this is done in every course the university will have approached much nearer the ideal standard. - [Gazette.

An interesting object was observed a few days since in the freight-yard of the B. & A. R. R. branch in Cambridgeport. A freight-car bore a poster on which the figures '86 appeared in large characters as a heading, while below followed a pronunciamento beginning, "All men are created free and equal - except freshmen," and then giving a set of rules to govern the conduct of such, with decisive intimations as to what they must and must not do. On inquiry of the freight hands it was learned that the car came from Syracuse, N. Y., where there exists, we believe, an institution called Syracuse University.