Marks in English II are out. The average run quite low.

A report of the '86 class dinner will be printed in Monday's CRIMSON.

Prof. James will relieve Dr. Royce in conducting Phil. 3 next Monday.

The Cambridge crew is the favorite in the races to be rowed with Oxford next week.

During the past year the university library was increased by 12,360 volumes.

Dr. McCosh is at present engaged in reviewing the philosophy of Herbert Spencer.

Maine University, which has been closed for about ten years, is soon to be re-opened.

The managers of the H. A. A. have decided not to have any music at the winter meetings.

At the recent athletic sports at Yale, the winner of the standing high jump failed at 4 ft., 7 in.

Mr. John Langdon Sibley, the librarian at Harvard for thirty years, has completed his eightieth year.

Sever 11 was crowded last night, for Mr. Jones' reading. Mr. Jones read selections from Hiawatha, and a humorous piece from Mrs. Stowe's "Oldtown Folks."

The Spirit of the Times accredits Mr. Fogg, '85, with the best amateur record for the hitch and kick. Mr. Fogg made his record at the M. I. T. games, kicking 8 ft. 6 in.

The class poem read by Mr. Houghton at the dinner last evening will be published in the Advocate.

The '86 tug-of-war team have been practising pulling with the Technology team in Boston, during the past week.

A three days fair will soon be held at Dartmouth, the proceeds of which will be applied to the support of the nine.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has thirty-five men in training, and will put a nine in the field this year.

Seven men are at present in training for the Wesleyan crew. Five of these were in the rush line of their foot ball team last fall.

A petition will be received in Latin II this morning. All who are dissatiswith the mark they received are requested to be present.

Mr. Shaler requests all men who think of doing geological work during the summer, to meet him at the next Seminar on Thursday, the 2nd April.

The Glee Club concert Wednesday evening was most successful, and the efforts of the members met with due appreciation from the large audience assembled.

The Laboratory in Harvard Hall will be open from 10 till 1 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, in order that as many students in N. H. 3 as wish, may have an opportunity to work. This work, however, is entirely optional.

President Eliot's annual report shows that the elective system has not hurt the classics, and that some of the most difficult studies are the most popular. Here is a nut for those to crack who believe that an undergraduate knows nothing and is criminally lazy.- Brunonian.

At the regular meeting of the Natural History Society, Wednesday night, the following members were elected. Messrs. W. M. Wadsworth, special; A. B. Seymour, special; B. D. Robinson, '87; J. A. Bailey, '88; E. L. Blossom, '88; L. M. Garrison, '88; and H. K. Job, '88. Mr. F. H. Sellers was elected Librarian. Mr. J. E. Humphrey read a paper on "Our Largest and Commonest Phaeosporea," giving keys for its determination of species in the field. Mr. G. H. Parker read a paper on Zoological classification, historically considered.