English VI. discusses this afternoon, "The Choice of a Profession."

Dr. Royce's History of California is expected daily.

Harvard '88 plays Brown '88 this afternoon on Holmes at four o'clock.

Professor Paine's subject to night will be Berlioz, Liszt, Raff, and Rubenstein.

The Astronomical Observatory is open to seniors to-day and to-morrow, from 7 to 9 P. M.

There will be a full rehearsal of Julius Caesar Saturday morning at 10 o'clock.

The Glee Club Pierian concert for the benefit of the boat club, occurs this evening in Union Hall, Boston.

S. D. Richardson has been selected orator of the Signet, and L. L. Hight poet for the coming strawberry night.

The prize bat and cup for the best batting average are now on exhibition at Leavitt and Peirce's.

The second '85-'87 class game was played yesterday afternoon. The seniors won by a score of 13 to 1, in 5 innings.

Mr. H. S. Hodge, '86, end rusher of the Princeton foot-ball eleven, has been chosen captain of the Princeton lacrosse team.

The current Atlantic contains much of interest to Harvard men. In it are a poem, "Dawn and Dusk," and a review of the Duchess Emilia.

The annual ball game between Phillips Andover and Exeter Academies will be played this year at Exeter, on June 14.

Mr. McAdie of the signal service, lectured before the Natural History Society last week, on Atmospheric Electricity, giving the result of experiments recently conducted in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory.

The report of the mile run last Saturday published in the CRIMSON was incorrect. Mr. Brandt, '85, was a good second at the finish, and Mr. Root, '85, a close third.

Invitations have been extended to the brass band to play in Sanders Theatre for the Shakspere club on May 25th and 26th, and for the G. A. R. on May 30th.

The lacrosse team played a practice game on the Union Grounds, Boston, yesterday afternoon. Their opponents were a strong picked team from the local clubs, and played most of the time with one or two more men than our team. Harvard won 3 goals to their opponents 2.

A new version of an old song:

Yale men talk of their Willet and Odell,

Harvard bets on her Nick and Samu-el,

Yale men dream of the glories gone before,

Wnile Harvard knocks them silly to the tune of 'steen to four.

The Yale News of Monday contains the following:

Yale, '88, claims the game played with Harvard, '88, on Saturday last, under provision of section 4 of rule 43, class V, of the Official Base Ball Guide.

A. WHITE, Manager.

At the Harvard-Amherst game, a large delegation from Smith College brightened up the field, and most of their carriages floated the crimson. One fair student was heard to ask when Willard made his long hit, why he did not run around again.

The freshman nine suecceded in defeating the Boston High School nine, yesterday afternoon, by a score of 9 to to 6. The freshmen played a miserable game, making very many costly and inexcusable errors. The batting was very weak, except in the last two innings, when good batting, assisted by errors gave the freshmen the game. The High School nine played, on the whole, a good game, and led by several runs until the seventh inning.

The following are the Chapters in Professor Laughlin's book on "The Study of Political Economy," shortly to be issued by D. Appleton and Co. I. Our Civil War, the Cause of a new Interest in Economics. II. The Character of Political Economy as a Study. III. The Disciplinary Power of Political Economy. IV. The Relations of Political Economy to the Law, the Ministry, and Journalism. V. Methods of Teaching Political Economy.