Mr. G. A. Burdette, '81, is seriously ill in Berlin.

Mr. H. W. Petrikin was elected freshman fence orator at Yale on the first ballot.

Mr. F. E. Jennison, '83, will read a thesis on "Simonides of Ceos" in Greek 9 on Saturday.

The marks of Mr. Hawes' section in Maximum Latin will be given the latter part of next week.

The Boylston prize speaking will take place on Thursday evening, May 10, at Sanders Theatre.

The members of the class of '82 of the Boston Latin School are to have a meeting in 51 Grays tonight at eight o'clock.

The freshmen play a game with Adams Academy on May 5th at Quincy, and with the Brown freshmen on Saturday, May 12th.

The first tricycle meet ever held in America took place in Boston yesterday afternoon. Twenty-five machines put in an appearance.

Prof. Cooke in his chemical lecture to the freshmen yesterday, performed some interesting experiments with gun-cotton, gunpowder, dynamite, etc.

The marks that were assigned to Mr. Preble's section in Freshman Latin and the Christmas examination will have no effect on the marks for the year.

The second eight of the O. K. Society from '84 is as follows: S. A. Eliot, W. H. Garrison, E. A. Hibbard, R. S. Minturn, W. B. Noble, T. M. Osborne, J. Prentiss and L. E. Sexton.

Mr. Reed, '83, and Mr. Greve, '84, read short lives of Bacchylides and Theocritus in Greek 9 yesterday. Mr. Henderson and Mr. Rose read translations from the works of these poets.

The preliminary trials in the Boylston prize speaking will take place in Sanders Theatre at 9 A. M. Saturday next. Competitors from the junior class will come first speaking alphabetically.

Prof. J. P. Cooke will deliver his course of lectures illustrating English history, beginning next Tuesday and continuing on the successive Tuesdays of May. The lectures are delivered primarily for the freshmen and their friends.