Thesis in History 10 will be due Saturday.

The fifth theme in English 12 will be due Friday.

After the mid-years, the text book in German 1 will be Goethe's Prosa.

In Philosophy 1, the examination will be entirely on the subject of logic.

A meeting of the directors of the Dining Association will be held today at 1.30 P. M.

Edward Everett Hale will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration at Brown University this year.

Students in Chem. 1 are expected to finish the first forty-four experiments before the midyear examinations.

Several of the professors spent the recess away from Cambridge. Prof. Dyer went as far west as Chicago.

Complaints are frequent among the students in regard to the colossal proportions of the gas bills for this term.

The Criterion Club of Boston is to hold a grand boxing match, February 17, in which several Harvard men will take part.

The Harvard Club of Chicago is in a flourishing condition. A dinner was held a week or two ago, and the club has a large membership.

The Chess Club will probably give a dinner to Capt. McKensie, the noted player, when he comes to Boston in the latter part of the month.

Girard College, Philadelphia, has just opened a school of technology. It will not attempt to teach in full any one trade, but to give instruction in the skillful use of tools in wood and iron. This is in some respects a new experiment.

A series of lectures are being given before the Boston University Law School by Dr. Wharton of Philadelphia, who is staying in Cambridge.

John C. Ropes, Esq., will deliver an informal lecture to members of History 15 on Napoleon Buonaparte, a week from Thursday in Dr. Channing's room.

The annual dinner of the Massachusetts Rifle Association will be held at the Quincy House, next week Members are reminded that they are at liberty to bring friends.

The Yale Polo Club has twelve good players in training for the seven positions on its team. It has challenged our polo team, under a slight misapprehension as to facts.

Mr. Sumner Coolidge, '83, who has gone west to Marqette, Mich., has organized a musical association there, of which he is director, which has already given a very successful concert.

The prayer-petition is now completed and it will soon be sent before the faculty. The petition was only circulated among the students of the collegiate department, yet it has received over 900 signatures.

The Harvard Chess Club recently organized, is now in a very good condition, having about twenty members. The officers are: President, Ward Thoron, '86; Secretary, Rowland Hayward, L. S. S.

There is a project on foot in Baltimore, Md., for the establishment of a Catholic college for the education of American students for the Josephite Order. The labors of the priests of this Order are confined exclusively to the colored races.-[Ex.

Dr. Sargent was in New York during the recess, completing the apparatus in the new gymnasium of the New York Athletic Club. This gymnasium will be the finest in the country, surpassing even the Hemen way gymnasium in the completeness of appointments and apparatus.

The next Mathematical Seminar will be held tomorrow at 4 P. M. in U. 19. Mr. Haskell will lecture on "The theory of members." The subject for discussion will be: I. Curvature of the cogs of wheels. II. Problem. A circle of unknown radius has its centre on the circumference of a given circle and incloses within it a given area. Find the unknown radius.