Brass band rehearsal to-day, at 4.30 P. M.

The Photographic Club has decided on a tasty shingle.

The Campanari String Quartette will assist Professor Paine this evening.

Boston Unions play the Dartmouths at Hanover this coming Saturday.

To-night.- Celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Boston Latin School.

Mr. W. H. bishop, the novelist, is talked of for the professorship of modern languages at Yale.

Prot. Sumner will deliver a lecture before the New York Free Trade Club, Friday evening, on "The Effect of Protective Taxes on National Prosperity."

The Techs defeated the Browns Tuesday, at Providence. Score, 5 to 2. The Techs were weak at the bat and won the game through the poor fielding of their opponents. Errors, Techs, 5; Browns, 15.

The "Holyokes" will play the Adams Academy nine at Quincy this afternoon. Chamberlain, '86, and Crocker, '85, will form the battery. The party leaves Boston by the 2.30 train.

Bowdoin prizes have been awarded as follows: to W. M. Fullerton, '86, $75 for an essay on "Alexander's Campaign in the Punjamb"; to H. T. Hildreth, $50 for a translation into Attic Prose.

The Yale freshmen feel aggrieved because they have sixteen hours perweek of prescribed work. A petition has been drawn up, and will be presented, asking the faculty to excuse the class from one recitation per week.

The catalogue of the Yale Law School has just been issued. It contains a list of the alumni from 1824, the date of the founding of the school, to the present time. This list contains 948 names. Of the alumni, 711 are yet living.

There will be an excursion to-day in N. H. IV. The party will leave the Old Colony depot in Boston at 1.15 P. M. The destination of the excursion will be Hough's Neck, Quincy. Those who go will be able to return to Cambridge by 6.45 P. M.

Many people while passing the lawn tennis courts yesterday morning were amused by the curiously uniformed base ball nine, practising on the courts. The H. P. C. actors were amusing themselves while waiting for the photographer.

At the Ornithological Club Tuesday evening a definite plan of collecting was decided upon. The adjacent country has been divided into five districts, each of which will be collected over by a section of the club. The club now occupies the room of the N. H. Society, Mass. 2.

Easton, L. S., who has anchored our tug-of-war teams for the last two years in New York, will be debarred this year from contesting. Balch, '88, the victorious freshman anchor, will not be able to pull; so the position will probably be occupied by Dewey, '86, who has shown considerable proficiency in the sport.

President Seelye says in regard to "compulsory chapel" that "it has done incalculable good for Amherst, and its omission would prove an irreparable loss. A wise person will take advantage of this privilege of chapel worship and a well bred person will refram from all disturbances of the exercise in the slightest way."