23. THURSDAY.First day of the Christmas Recess.

*** The next Vesper Service will be on Thursday, January 6.

PROFESSOR LANCIANI'S LECTURE.A course of eleven lectures on Roman Archaeology was begun by Professor Rodolfo Lanciani, LL.D., of Rome, on Wednesday, November 17, in Sanders Theatre. The lectures are attractively illustrated with stereopticon views. The subjects of the remaining lectures are as follows: -

Dec. 20, Monday. The Discovery of the House of the Vestals.

Dec. 22, Wednesday. Treasures found in the Excavations.

ASSYRIAN ARCHAEOLOGY.During January Dr. Arthur L. Frothingham of Princeton will deliver a series of five lectures on Assyrian Archaeology. The dates fixed are the 10th, 12th, 18th, 24th, and 26th. The first lecture will be devoted to the earlier archaeological discoveries concerning Babylonia and Assyria: the second to recent discoveries and present theories regarding the philology, ethnography, and literature of the Assyrians. The third and fourth will outline the history of Babylonian and Assyrian Art, and the-fifth the foreign relations of Babylonia and Assyria. The lectures will be given in upper Boylston, and will be illustrated with stereopticon views. The public is invited.

READINGS FROM CHAUCER.Professor Child will give his next reading on Monday, January 10, in Sever 11.

ENGLISH B.A lecture will be given in Sever 11 on Tuesday. Dec, 21, at two o'clock. Subject: The Art of Narrative, concluded.

Theme IV. will be returned to students on Tuesday, December 21, from 3 until 4 o'clock, as follows: Albee to Odell in Sever 5; Packard to Zinkeisen in Sever 1.

Themes not called for at this time will be left, at the students' risk, in the tin box on the mantle-piece in Sever 3.

Theme V. will be due on Tuesday, Dec. 21. It must be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 before 4 o'clock. Subject: A Narrative.