E. C. Thayer, '85, is in Cambridge.

'89 meets this evening in Boylston at 7.30.

The Harvard Union will meet this evening, at 7.30, in Sever 11.

Freshman Chemistry this morning at 9 o'clock, in Boylston.

Yale's fall athletic games will be held on Wednesday, October 21st.

Princeton will have eight of the old eleven on her foot-ball team this year.

The assignment of tables will be made at Memorial the first of next week.

George William Curtis has become a sporting man. He is lecturing on the "Puritan."

Harvard will play at Fitchburg next Saturday. The challenge to Brown was not accepted.

H. C. Beaman, '85, umpired the first inning of yesterday's game, but was severely hurt by a swift ball, and compelled to retire.

The sections in freshman German will meet the instructor in U. 17 for the first time as follows: Section V, Shattuck to Young, Thursday at 2; Section I, Abbott to Curry; Friday, at 9; Section II, Dadmun to Hobart, Friday at 12; Section III, Hodges to J. D. Merrill, Friday at 2; IV, J. W. Merrill to Shapleigh, Saturday at 11.

Harvard's example has been followed. A brass band has been organized by Bates.

Yale possesses a phenomenal freshman bicycle rider. He is so modest that his name has not yet appeared.

The question of the decline of literary activity among the undergraduates of Harvard was the question debate in English VI yesterday afternoon.

Mr. Jones will meet members of the freshman class who may desire instruction in elocution as follows: Mondays, at 12 m.; Mondays, at 3 p. m.; Tuesdays, at 11 a. m.

At last evening's meeting of the Hasty Pudding Club, the election of officers for the ensuing year resuited as follows: president, W. S. Barnes; vice-president, A. H. Vogel; secretary, J. A. Frye; treasurer, A. P. Gardner.

The names of those who desire the printed synopsis of History XIII, should be left at once with some member of the committee. If 100 names are obtained, the fee for the first half year will be $1.00. M. W. Richardson, '86, Furber, '87, and Brown, '87, constitute the committee.

The course in Mineralogy that is prescribed for those taking N. H. 4 as a full course, is overcrowded. The result will probably be that only a majority of those who wish to take it can do so. Prof. Shaler has announced a half course allied to N. H. 4 that can be elected in the place of Mr. Huntington's course.

Mr. E. H. Babbitt, '86, has received the appointment of instructor in freshman German for the year 1885-86. This is the first instance of the appointment of an undergraduate as instructor in any department of the University. Mr. Babbitt has had considerable experience in teaching, and as a student of languages he has made his mark while here in college.

At a meeting of the faculty last spring, it was voted that there be appointed by the President an athletic committee consisting of the director of the gymnasium, a physician of Boston, a graduate, and two undergraduates prominent in athletics, to hold office for one year. In accordance with this vote the president has appointed Dr. D. A. Sargent, Dr. Henry P. Walcott, J. J. Storrow, '85, W. B. Phillips, '86, nd C. F. Adams, '88.

Brown is agitated over the prospects of an "Annex."